roundaboutnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈraʊnd.ə.baʊt/us/ˈraʊnd.ə.baʊt/UKroundabout noun [ C ] (ON ROAD)
A2 US traffic circle a place where three or more roads join and traffic must go around a circular area in the middle, rather than straight across
Examples
- Take the first left at the roundabout.
- Take the last turning at the roundabout.
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Road junctions
- box
- box junction
- circus
- cloverleaf
- corner
- crossing
- crossroad
- crossroads
- fork
- interchange
- intersect
- intersection
- junction
- spaghetti junction
- staggered junction
- T-junction
- traffic circle
- turn-off
- turning
roundabout noun [ C ] (PLAY EQUIPMENT)
US merry-go-round a flat, round piece of equipment in play areas on which children sit or stand and are pushed round and round
US carousel a large machine at a fair that turns round and has wooden or plastic animals or vehicles on which children ride
Synonym
merry-go-round
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Play areas for children
- adventure playground
- amusement arcade
- ball pool
- climbing frame
- den
- flume
- jungle gym
- paddling pool
- playground
- playhouse
- playpen
- sandbox
- sandpit
- schoolyard
- slide
- swing
- teeter-totter
- tree house
- wading pool
- Wendy house
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Carnival, fairground & circus
roundaboutadjective
uk/ˈraʊnd.ə.baʊt/us/ˈraʊnd.ə.baʊt/not in a simple, direct, or quick way:
We took a roundabout route to avoid the accident.
He asked me, in a roundabout way, if he could have a salary increase.
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Digressing and being indirect or evasive
- beat
- discursive
- elliptical
- euphemism
- evasive
- go (all) round the houses idiom
- go off on a tangent idiom
- implicit
- move off sth/on (to sth)
- obliquely
- parry
- sanitize
- sidestep
- skirt
- stray
- suggestion
- talk around sth
- tangent
- tiptoe
- tiptoe around sth/sb
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