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All-round   /ɔl-raʊnd/   Listen
adverb
Round  adv.  
1.
On all sides; around. "Round he throws his baleful eyes."
2.
Circularly; in a circular form or manner; by revolving or reversing one's position; as, to turn one's head round; a wheel turns round.
3.
In circumference; as, a ball is ten inches round.
4.
From one side or party to another; as to come or turn round, that is, to change sides or opinions.
5.
By or in a circuit; by a course longer than the direct course; back to the starting point.
6.
Through a circle, as of friends or houses. "The invitations were sent round accordingly."
7.
Roundly; fully; vigorously. (Obs.)
All round, over the whole place; in every direction.
All-round, of general capacity; as, an all-round man. (Colloq.)
To bring one round.
(a)
To cause one to change his opinions or line of conduct.
(b)
To restore one to health. (Colloq.)


adjective
all-round  adj.  
1.
Many-sided. "An all-round athlete"
Synonyms: all-around(prenominal), well-rounded





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"All-round" Quotes from Famous Books



... mark how there must be an all-round completeness in order that we shall fairly set forth the glory and power of the light of which our faith makes us children and partakers. The fruit 'is in all goodness and righteousness and truth.' These three aspects—the good, the right, the true—may not be a scientific, ethical classification, ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John • Alexander Maclaren
... has plenty of power and about the right density, but, unless you get a rather big stick—too big for all-round usefulness,—it is apt to snap. The hazel is perhaps rather too stiff, and it is certainly too light, though for this very reason it is handy. Then, again, there is no bending a hazel without a great chance of breaking it. A good strong ground-ash is not to be despised if cut at the ...
— Broad-Sword and Single-Stick • R. G. Allanson-Winn
... for its special purpose. We call it the 'Driver' cue—for driving off from baulk and for follow-throughs, forcing strokes and all-round cannons." ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, January 28, 1914 • Various
... love of it. Socials and clubs and athletic organizations and other devices have been used as a bid to hold the boy, instead of being used because the church owed these things to the boy as part of his all-round development. "Where the treasure is, there will the heart be also"; and it stands to reason that the heart of the boy will be where he is giving most of himself. If he is investing himself heavily in the interest and service of the church, that is ...
— The Boy and the Sunday School - A Manual of Principle and Method for the Work of the Sunday - School with Teen Age Boys • John L. Alexander
... the patriot queen who had to steer England through so many storms and tortuous channels, we could find no better short guide to her political career than Beesley's volume about her in 'Twelve English Statesmen.' But the best all-round biography is Queen Elizabeth by Mandell Creighton, who also wrote an excellent epitome, called The Age of Elizabeth, for the 'Epochs of Modern History.' Shakespeare's England, published in ...
— Elizabethan Sea Dogs • William Wood


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