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ˌall-ˈrounder fam.
[f. prec. + -er.]
He who, or that which, is all round; hence applied to a man who is able ‘all round’; to a collar which fits all round, etc.
1857J. E. Ritchie Night Side of London 146 One or two awful young swells with excruciating all-rounders were present. 1860All Y. Round No. 42. 369 That particularly demonstrative type of the [collar] species known as ‘the all-rounder!’ 1865Ld. Strangford Selection (1869) II. 163 Dressed in full uniform, with high stand-up collar; the modern all-rounder not having got so far into Asia. 1875Contemp. Rev. XXV. 741 An all-rounder in attainments..‘who had run through the circle of the sciences, and understood them all equally well’. 1938Times 7 Jan. 13/6 Nor, even if the organization were bigger, would it be easy to clap the staff into their pigeon-holes, when so many jobs call for the all-rounder. 1955Times 12 May 14/4 Mr. Gilbert Jessop. A Great Cricketing All-Rounder. 1959Listener 5 Mar. 402/1 The academically successful student is an all-rounder. He plays games and he takes a good part in general college life. |