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ROUNDABOUT WAY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does roundabout way mean?
• ROUNDABOUT WAY (noun)
The noun ROUNDABOUT WAY has 1 sense:
1. a roundabout road (especially one that is used temporarily while a main route is blocked)
Familiarity information: ROUNDABOUT WAY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A roundabout road (especially one that is used temporarily while a main route is blocked)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
detour; roundabout way
Hypernyms ("roundabout way" is a kind of...):
road; route (an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation)
Context examples
We had come out upon Oxford Street and I had ventured some remark as to this being a roundabout way to Kensington, when my words were arrested by the extraordinary conduct of my companion.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
My love was so much in my mind and it was so natural to me to confide in Peggotty, when I found her again by my side of an evening with the old set of industrial implements, busily making the tour of my wardrobe, that I imparted to her, in a sufficiently roundabout way, my great secret.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
She put on her hat and jacket as noiselessly as possible, and going to the back entry window, got out upon the roof of a low porch, swung herself down to the grassy bank, and took a roundabout way to the road.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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