REVOLVE ABOUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does revolve about mean? 

• REVOLVE ABOUT (verb)
  The verb REVOLVE ABOUT has 1 sense:

1. center upon

  Familiarity information: REVOLVE ABOUT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REVOLVE ABOUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Center upon

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

center; center on; concentrate on; focus on; revolve about; revolve around

Context example:

Our day revolved around our work

Hypernyms (to "revolve about" is one way to...):

bear on; come to; concern; have to do with; pertain; refer; relate; touch; touch on (be relevant to)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

He pulled a lever and made his mind revolve about him, a monstrous wheel of fortune, a merry-go-round of memory, a revolving sphere of wisdom.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was better still to see Amy pay him the daughterly duty and affection which completely won his old heart, and best of all, to watch Laurie revolve about the two, as if never tired of enjoying the pretty picture they made.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

They have likewise discovered two lesser stars, or satellites, which revolve about Mars; whereof the innermost is distant from the centre of the primary planet exactly three of his diameters, and the outermost, five; the former revolves in the space of ten hours, and the latter in twenty-one and a half; so that the squares of their periodical times are very near in the same proportion with the cubes of their distance from the centre of Mars; which evidently shows them to be governed by the same law of gravitation that influences the other heavenly bodies.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)