CIRCLE ROUND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does circle round mean? 

• CIRCLE ROUND (verb)
  The verb CIRCLE ROUND has 1 sense:

1. move around in a circular motion

  Familiarity information: CIRCLE ROUND used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CIRCLE ROUND (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Move around in a circular motion

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

circle around; circle round; revolve around

Context example:

The Earth revolves around the Sun

Hypernyms (to "circle round" is one way to...):

circle (travel around something)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

 Context examples 

The others gave back, and gathered in a half circle round the open door, gnashing their teeth and shaking their clenched hands at the defenders.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I felt as if I had been living in a palace of cards, which had tumbled down, leaving only Miss Mills and me among the ruins; I felt as if some grim enchanter had drawn a magic circle round the innocent goddess of my heart, which nothing indeed but those same strong pinions, capable of carrying so many people over so much, would enable me to enter!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The whole party walked about, and looked, and praised again; and then, having nothing else to do, formed a sort of half-circle round the fire, to observe in their various modes, till other subjects were started, that, though May, a fire in the evening was still very pleasant.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It was as though my memories of all Jonathan's horrid experience were befooling me; for the snow flakes and the mist began to wheel and circle round, till I could get as though a shadowy glimpse of those women that would have kissed him.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)