roundabout

Plural: roundabouts

Noun

• a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride or amusement
• A road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island.
• 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.
• A round dance.

Adjective Satellite

• marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct
  • "a roundabout paragraph"
  • "hear in a roundabout way that her ex-husband was marrying her best friend"
• deviating from a straight course
  • "a roundabout route avoided rush-hour traffic"

Adj

• Indirect, circuitous, or circumlocutionary.
• Encircling; enveloping; comprehensive.

Verb

• To play on a roundabout (carousel)
• To travel round roundabouts
• To talk in a roundabout, indirect manner

Synonyms

carousel, carrousel, circle, circuitous, devious, merry-go-round, rotary, traffic circle, whirligig, island, rotunda

Related Words

swings and roundabouts

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