rond-pointn.

Brit.

/ˈrɒ̃pwã/, U.S.

/ˈrɑnˌpwɑnt/

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French rond-point.

Etymology: < French rond-point circular space or centre from which paths in a garden, wood, or park radiate (1708), circus or roundabout at which roads converge (1825 (in rond-point des Champs-Elysées , the name of such a circus in Paris) or earlier) < rond round adj. + point point n.¹

1. In a town or city: a circus or roundabout at which roads converge. Cf. roundabout n. 8.Chiefly in French contexts, but also adopted elsewhere in Town Planning.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > junction of roads, paths, or tracks > [noun] > types of road junction > roundabout

circus1898

rond-point1903

rotonda1908

traffic circle1914

roundabout1926

rotary1940

gyratory1983

modern roundabout1987

?1830 Galignani's New Paris Guide (ed. 17) xi. 285 After the accession of Charles X, it was resolved that the statue of Louis XV should be erected in the centre of the rond point of the Champs-Elysées.

1862 W. M. Thackeray Adventures of Philip II. ii. 60 A short time after passing the Rond Point in the Elysian fields,..Mr. Philip would see a little person.

1903 A. H. Beavan Tube, Train, Tram, & Car x. 120 Sloane Street, where anyone approaching town by way of Kensington, meets the first of the numerous metropolitan ‘rond-points’.

1948 Archit. Rev. 103 158/2 Foremost in his mind he must have had such questions as where to place his rond-points and their radiating streets, and how to co-ordinate and integrate the various units of the plan.

1998 F. R. Kowsky Country, Park & City vi. 151 In the middle of a grassy rond-point, Vaux hoped to erect a 40-foot-tall stone tower.

2. In a garden, wood, etc.: a circular space or centre from which paths radiate.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > division or part of garden > [noun] > walk > centre from which paths radiate

rond-point1884

society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > path or place for walking > [noun] > foot(-)path > in a garden or pleasure-ground > place where paths meet

rond-point1884

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. iii. iv. 170 The Queen was not far; on a ‘round knoll, rond point, the highest of the Garden of Saint-Cloud’.

1884 H. James in Atlantic Monthly May 631/2 A jardin français..with little blue-green perspectives and alleys and rond-points.

1910 L. Weaver Small Country Houses of To-day I. xxxix. 196 A path, 6ft. in width, leads from it between herbaceous borders 10ft. wide to a rond-point with a segmental seat of masonry and a sundial.

1967 C. Hussey Eng. Gardens & Landscapes 1700–1750 v. 41 The enclosing shrubberies were threaded by walks, straight for the most part but irregularly aligned, connecting sundry rond-points and mounds, to debouch at unexpected angles into the glade.

1990 R. Williams Garden Planner (1998) 64 You can make the last area worth visiting with a well-placed focal point, a seat, a rond-point..or even a secret garden.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	rond-point
释义	rond-pointn. Brit. /ˈrɒ̃pwã/, U.S. /ˈrɑnˌpwɑnt/ Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French rond-point. Etymology: < French rond-point circular space or centre from which paths in a garden, wood, or park radiate (1708), circus or roundabout at which roads converge (1825 (in rond-point des Champs-Elysées , the name of such a circus in Paris) or earlier) < rond round adj. + point point n.¹ 1. In a town or city: a circus or roundabout at which roads converge. Cf. roundabout n. 8.Chiefly in French contexts, but also adopted elsewhere in Town Planning. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > junction of roads, paths, or tracks > [noun] > types of road junction > roundabout circus1898 rond-point1903 rotonda1908 traffic circle1914 roundabout1926 rotary1940 gyratory1983 modern roundabout1987 ?1830 Galignani's New Paris Guide (ed. 17) xi. 285 After the accession of Charles X, it was resolved that the statue of Louis XV should be erected in the centre of the rond point of the Champs-Elysées. 1862 W. M. Thackeray Adventures of Philip II. ii. 60 A short time after passing the Rond Point in the Elysian fields,..Mr. Philip would see a little person. 1903 A. H. Beavan Tube, Train, Tram, & Car x. 120 Sloane Street, where anyone approaching town by way of Kensington, meets the first of the numerous metropolitan ‘rond-points’. 1948 Archit. Rev. 103 158/2 Foremost in his mind he must have had such questions as where to place his rond-points and their radiating streets, and how to co-ordinate and integrate the various units of the plan. 1998 F. R. Kowsky Country, Park & City vi. 151 In the middle of a grassy rond-point, Vaux hoped to erect a 40-foot-tall stone tower. 2. In a garden, wood, etc.: a circular space or centre from which paths radiate. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > division or part of garden > [noun] > walk > centre from which paths radiate rond-point1884 society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > path or place for walking > [noun] > foot(-)path > in a garden or pleasure-ground > place where paths meet rond-point1884 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. iii. iv. 170 The Queen was not far; on a ‘round knoll, rond point, the highest of the Garden of Saint-Cloud’. 1884 H. James in Atlantic Monthly May 631/2 A jardin français..with little blue-green perspectives and alleys and rond-points. 1910 L. Weaver Small Country Houses of To-day I. xxxix. 196 A path, 6ft. in width, leads from it between herbaceous borders 10ft. wide to a rond-point with a segmental seat of masonry and a sundial. 1967 C. Hussey Eng. Gardens & Landscapes 1700–1750 v. 41 The enclosing shrubberies were threaded by walks, straight for the most part but irregularly aligned, connecting sundry rond-points and mounds, to debouch at unexpected angles into the glade. 1990 R. Williams Garden Planner (1998) 64 You can make the last area worth visiting with a well-placed focal point, a seat, a rond-point..or even a secret garden. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?1830
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