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Rotund definitions
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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
ROTUND', a. [L. rotundus, probably formed on rota, a wheel, as jocundus on jocus.]
1. Round; circular; spherical.
2. In botany, circumscribed by one unbroken curve, or without angles; as a rotund leaf.
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)
adj
1: spherical in shape
2: (of sounds) full and rich; "orotund tones"; "the rotund and reverberating phrase"; "pear-shaped vowels" [syn: orotund, rotund, round, pear-shaped]
3: excessively fat; "a weighty man" [syn: corpulent, obese, weighty, rotund]
Merriam Webster's
adjective Etymology: Latin rotundus, probably alteration of Old Latin *retundus; akin to Latin rota wheel — more at roll Date: 16651. marked by roundness ; rounded 2. marked by fullness of sound or cadence; orotund, sonorous< a master of rotund diction >3. notably plump; chubby • rotundity noun • rotundly adverb • rotundness noun
Oxford Reference Dictionary
adj. 1 a circular, round. b (of a person) large and plump, podgy. 2 (of speech, literary style, etc.) sonorous, grandiloquent. Derivatives: rotundity n. rotundly adv. Etymology: L rotundus f. rotare ROTATE(1)
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Rotund Ro*tund", a. [L. rotundus. See Round, and cf. Rotunda.] 1. Round; circular; spherical. 2. Hence, complete; entire. 3. (Bot.) Orbicular, or nearly so. --Gray.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Rotund Ro*tund", n. A rotunda. [Obs.] --Burke.
Collin's Cobuild Dictionary
If someone is rotund, they are round and fat. (FORMAL) A rotund, smiling, red-faced gentleman appeared. ADJ
Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms
a. Round, spherical, globular.
Moby Thesaurus
adipose, arched, beefy, bellied, bellylike, big-bellied, bloated, blowzy, bosomy, bowed, brawny, bulging, burly, buxom, chubby, chunky, circular, consonant, convex, convexed, corpulent, crummy, deep, distended, dumpy, excurvate, excurvated, excurved, fat, fattish, fleshy, full, gibbose, gibbous, globular, gross, heavy, heavyset, hefty, hippy, humped, imposing, lusty, meaty, mellow, obese, orbicular, orotund, out-bowed, overweight, paunchy, plangent, plump, podgy, portly, potbellied, pudgy, puffy, pursy, resonant, resounding, reverberant, reverberating, rich, ringing, roly-poly, round, rounded, rounded out, sonorous, spherical, square, squat, squatty, stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, stubby, swollen, thick, thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tubby, vibrant, well-fed
