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Around

English

  1. 🔊 in circumference
    “the trunk is ten feet around”
  2. 🔊 by a circular or circuitous route
    “He came all the way around the base”
  3. 🔊 in a circle or circular motion
    “The wheels are spinning around”
  4. 🔊 to a particular destination either specified or understood
    “she came around to see me”
  5. 🔊 in the area or vicinity
    “a few spectators standing about”
  6. 🔊 from beginning to end
    “It rains all year round on Skye”
  7. 🔊 all around or on all sides
    “dirty clothes lying around (or about)”
  8. 🔊 in or to a reversed position or direction
    “about face”
  9. 🔊 used of movement to or among many different places or in no particular direction
    “wandering about with no place to go”
  10. 🔊 (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
    “lasted approximately an hour”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 alrededor de around, approximately
  2. 🔊 en torno around, in the surroundings
  3. 🔊 del orden de around, roughly, more or less
  4. 🔊 hacia around, about (indicating time)
  5. 🔊 a eso de around, about (roughly at the time)
  6. 🔊 en torno de around, about (near, in the vicinity of)

Similar words

approximately about close to just about some roughly more or less or so about round about about about about again alive all about all over all round all through almost along toward anticlockwise any which way