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How to pronounce “roundabout”
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Pronunciation guide for roundabout
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of roundabout with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Why we get mad -- and why it's healthy
I can tell you honestly, there is no rage like roundabout rage.
- Definition summary
- Indirect, circuitous, or circumlocutionary.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce roundabout
Why we get mad -- and why it's healthy
I can tell you honestly, there is no rage like roundabout rage.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “roundabout”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Indirect, circuitous, or circumlocutionary.
- Encircling; enveloping; comprehensive.
- [Noun]
- (chiefly UK, New Zealand, Ireland, Canada, Australia and sometimes US, especially New England) 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.
- [Verb]
- To play on a roundabout (carousel)
- To travel round roundabouts
- To talk in a roundabout, indirect manner
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