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English
Roundabout
Etymology
From round + about .
Pronunciation
Adjective
roundabout (comparative more roundabout , superlative most roundabout )
Indirect , circuitous , or circumlocutionary .
1896 , Robert Barr , “chapter9”, in From Whose Bourne :[S]he fled, running like a deer, doubling and turning through alleys and back streets until by a very roundabout road she reached her own room.
1920 March – 1921 February, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse , chapter 17, in Indiscretions of Archie , New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company , publishers , published 1921 , →OCLC :"Really, Bill, I think your best plan would be to go straight to father and tell him the whole thing.—You don't want him to hear about it in a roundabout way."
2001 December 3 , Jim Rutenberg , “Rather Reports Another War”, in New York Times , retrieved 3 April 2014 :Mr. Rather flew to the area in a roundabout fashion, first landing in Bahrain, from there flying to Islamabad and then heading to Kabul by land.
2011 , 50 Classic Philosophy Books , Golgotha Press, →ISBN :Descartes is compelled to fall back upon a curious roundabout argument to prove that there is a world. He must first prove that God exists, and then argue that God would not deceive us into thinking that it exists when it does not.
Encircling; enveloping; comprehensive .
1689 (indicated as 1690 ) , [John Locke ], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. , London: Eliz Holt, for Thomas Basset, , →OCLC :The third sort is of those who readily and sincerely follow reason, but for want of having that which one may call a large, sound, roundabout sense, have not a full view of all that relates to the question.
Derived terms
Translations
Bulgarian: обиколен (bg) ( obikolen ) , непряк (bg) ( neprjak )
Czech: nepřímý
Finnish: kiertelevä (fi) , epäsuora (fi) , kierto- (fi)
German: umständlich (de) , verschleiert (de)
Hungarian: kerülő (hu) , körülíró , indirekt (hu) , terjengős (hu) , hosszadalmas (hu) , körülményes (hu) , köntörfalazó (hu)
Icelandic: óbeinn m , með vífilengjur f pl , krókóttur m , króka- , ekki beinn (is) m
Macedonian: обиколен ( obikolen )
Maori: takawhawhe
Polish: okrężny (pl) , okólny m
Portuguese: perifrástico , circunloquial
Russian: непрямо́й (ru) ( neprjamój ) , око́льный (ru) ( okólʹnyj ) , окружно́й (ru) ( okružnój ) , кру́жный (ru) ( krúžnyj ) , обходно́й (ru) ( obxodnój )
Swedish: omständlig (sv) , tillkrånglad , indirekt (sv)
Noun
roundabout (plural roundabouts )
( chiefly UK , New Zealand , Ireland , Canada , Australia and sometimes US ) A road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island .
( chiefly British ) A horizontal wheel which rotates around a central axis when pushed and on which children ride, often found in parks as a children 's play apparatus .
A fairground carousel .
A detour .
A short, close-fitting coat or jacket worn by men or boys, especially in the 19th century.
( archaic ) A round dance .
Usage notes
In North America, the use of roundabout varies by region. In some places traffic circle and rotary are more common.
Synonyms
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Translations
road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
Arabic: دَوَّار m ( dawwār )
Bulgarian: кръ̀гово движе́ние n ( krǎ̀govo dvižénie ) , кръ̀гово (bg) n ( krǎ̀govo ) ( colloquial )
Catalan: rotonda (ca) f , giratori m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 迴旋處 / 回旋处 ( wui4 syun4 cyu5 ) ( Hong Kong ) , 環島 / 环岛 (zh) ( waan4 dou2 ) ( Guangdong )
Hakka: 圓盤 / 圆盘 ( yan2 pan2 ) ( Meixian )
Mandarin: 環形交叉 / 环形交叉 ( huánxíng jiāochā ) , 環島 / 环岛 (zh) ( huándǎo ) ( Mainland China ) , 圓環 / 圆环 (zh) ( yuánhuán ) ( Taiwan ) , 迴旋處 / 回旋处 (zh) ( huíxuánchù ) ( Hong Kong )
Czech: kruhový objezd (cs) m , okružní křižovatka
Danish: rundkørsel (da)
Dutch: rotonde (nl) f , rondpunt (nl) n ( Belgium ) , verkeersplein (nl) n ( particularly large roundabout )
Esperanto: rondoplaco , trafikcirklo
Estonian: ringristmik
Faroese: rundkoyring , kjørekja
Finnish: liikenneympyrä (fi) , kiertoliittymä (fi)
French: rond-point (fr) m , giratoire (fr) m ( Switzerland )
Galician: rotonda f
German: Kreisverkehr (de) m , Kreisel (de) m ( informal ) , Verteilerkreis m ( large roundabout )
Greek: κόμβος (el) m ( kómvos )
Hebrew: כִּכָּר (he) m or f ( kikar )
Hungarian: körforgalom (hu)
Icelandic: hringtorg n , umferðarhringur m
Indonesian: bundaran (id)
Irish: compal m , timpeallán m
Italian: rotatoria (it) f , rotonda (it) f
Japanese: ラウンドアバウト ( raundoabauto ) , 環状交差点 ( かんじょうこうさてん, kanjō kōsaten )
Khmer: រង្វង់មូល ( rŭəngvŭəng muul ) , ផ្លូវវង់មូល ( phləw vŭəng muul )
Korean: 회전교차로 ( hoejeon'gyocharo )
Latvian: apļveida krustojums
Lithuanian: žiedas f , žiedinė sankryža f
Macedonian: кружен тек m ( kružen tek )
Malay: bulatan (ms) , bundaran
Maltese: rawndebawt f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: rundkjøring (no) m or f
Nynorsk: rundkøyring f
Persian: فلکه (fa) ( falake )
Polish: rondo (pl) n
Portuguese: rotatória f ( Brazil ) , rotunda (pt) f ( Portugal, Mozambique )
Romanian: sens giratoriu (ro) n
Russian: кругово́й перекрёсток m ( krugovój perekrjóstok ) , кольцо́ (ru) n ( kolʹcó ) ( colloquial ) , кольцевое пересечение ( kolʹcevoje peresečenije )
Serbo-Croatian: kružni tok , kružno raskršće , krugotok m
Slovak: kruhový objazd m
Slovene: krožišče n , rondo m
Spanish: rotonda (es) f , glorieta (es) f , redoma (es) f ( Venezuela )
Swahili: kipilefti , mzunguko (sw)
Swedish: rondell (sv)
Tagalog: rotonda
Turkish: dönel kavşak (tr)
Ukrainian: кругове́ перехре́стя n ( kruhové perexréstja )
Urdu: چَورَن٘گی f ( cauraṅgī ) , چوک ( ćok ) , چوراہا ( ćorāhā ) , دوراہا ( dorāhā )
Vietnamese: vòng xuyến
Welsh: cylchfan , cylchdro
children's play apparatus which rotates around a central axis when pushed
See also
Verb
roundabout (third-person singular simple present roundabouts , present participle roundabouting , simple past and past participle roundabouted )
To play on a roundabout (carousel)
To travel round roundabouts
To talk in a roundabout, indirect manner