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RELATED WORDS : all around around the bend around the clock arse around beat around the bush bob around boss around bring around bum around bump around cast around circle around clown around come around drive around fool around frig around gang around gather around get around get around to go around go around in circles hang around hang around with horse around jazz around just around the corner kick around kid around knock around lie around loll around look around lounge around mess around mill around monkey around moon around mope around move around muck around nose around pass around play around play around with poke around potter around push around putter around revolve around roll around run around send around sleeping around slosh around slush around spin around splash around stick around swing around the other way around tool around turn around turned around twist around walk around waltz around wheel around whirl around

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adverbial around has 10 senses

• around(r = adv.all) about - in the area or vicinity; "a few spectators standing about"; "hanging around"; "waited around for the next flight"
• around(r = adv.all) Array - by a circular or circuitous route; "He came all the way around the base"; "the road goes around the pond"
• around(r = adv.all) about - used of movement to or among many different places or in no particular direction; "wandering about with no place to go"; "people were rushing about"; "news gets around (or about)"; "traveled around in Asia"; "he needs advice from someone who's been around"; "she sleeps around"
• around(r = adv.all) Array - in a circle or circular motion; "The wheels are spinning around"
• around(r = adv.all) about, approximately, close to, just about, more or less, or so, roughly, some - (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct; "lasted approximately an hour"; "in just about a minute"; "he's about 30 years old"; "I've had about all I can stand"; "we meet about once a month"; "some forty people came"; "weighs around a hundred pounds"; "roughly $3,000"; "holds 3 gallons, more or less"; "20 or so people were at the party"
• around(r = adv.all) about - in or to a reversed position or direction; "about face"; "suddenly she turned around"
• around(r = adv.all) Array - to a particular destination either specified or understood; "she came around to see me"; "I invited them around for supper"
• around(r = adv.all) about - all around or on all sides; "dirty clothes lying around (or about)"; "let's look about for help"; "There were trees growing all around"; "she looked around her"
• around(r = adv.all) Array - in circumference; "the trunk is ten feet around"; "the pond is two miles around"
• around(r = adv.all) round - from beginning to end; throughout; "It rains all year round on Skye"; "frigid weather the year around"

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THESAURUS

around

about, again, alive, all about, all over, all round, all through, almost, along toward, anticlockwise, any which way, anyhow, anywise, approximately, at close quarters, at hand, at random, back, backward, by, by way of, circa, clockwise, close, close about, close at hand, close by, close upon, counterclockwise, encircling, enclosing, encompassing, enveloping, every which way, everywhence, everywhere, everywhither, existent, existing, far and wide, fast by, from every quarter, haphazard, haphazardly, hard, hard by, head over heels, heels over head, helter-skelter, here and there, hereabout, hereabouts, in a circle, in a spin, in a whirl, in all directions, in circles, in every quarter, in reverse, in spitting distance, in the neighborhood, in the vicinity, just about, living, near, near at hand, near enough to, near upon, nearabout, nearabouts, nearby, nearly, nigh, nigh about, not far, on all sides, on every side, only a step, over, passing by, passing through, random, randomly, roughly, round, round about, round and round, somewhere about, surrounding, thereabout, thereabouts, through, throughout, upwards of, via, widdershins, within call, within earshot, within hearing, within reach

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around

Circumjacence

N circumjacence, circumambience, environment, encompassment, atmosphere, medium, surroundings, outpost, border, girdle, outskirts, boulebards, suburbs, purlieus, precincts, faubourgs, environs, entourage, banlieue, neighborhood, vicinage, vicinity, circumjacent, circumambient, circumfluent, ambient, surrounding, circumferential, suburban, around, about, without, on every side, on all sides, right and left, all round, round about.

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