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PAPER ROUND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does paper round mean? 

PAPER ROUND (noun)
  The noun PAPER ROUND has 1 sense:

1. the route taken when delivering newspapers every dayplay

  Familiarity information: PAPER ROUND used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PAPER ROUND (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The route taken when delivering newspapers every day

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

paper round; paper route

Hypernyms ("paper round" is a kind of...):

itinerary; path; route (an established line of travel or access)


 Context examples 


I cannot say that they were very like, or that they particularly resembled any flowers that have ever come under my observation; but I knew from the paper round them which was accurately copied, what the composition was.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)



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