roundabout

Bedeutung (Englisch)

Adj

1. Indirect, circuitous, or circumlocutionary.
2. Encircling; enveloping; comprehensive.

Noun

1. (Australia, Canada, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK, US, sometimes) A road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island.
2. (British) A horizontal wheel which rotates around a central axis when pushed and on which children ride, often found in parks as a children's play apparatus.
3. A fairground carousel.
4. A detour.
5. A short, close-fitting coat or jacket worn by men or boys, especially in the 19th century.
6. (archaic) A round dance.

Verb

1. To play on a roundabout (carousel)
2. To travel round roundabouts
3. To talk in a roundabout, indirect manner

Konzepte

Karussell

Kreisverkehr

weitschweifig

breit

euphemistisch

glimpflich

indirekt

Kreisel

🔝

Laube

Pavillon

um

Umleitung

umschreibend

Umschreibung

umständlich

Umständlichkeit

umstehend

Umweg

verblümt

weitläufig

Weitschweifigkeit

Mäandern

weit ausholend

Karussel

abwegig

runder Platz

ausführlich

beschönigend

Synonyme

indirect

circuitous

merry-go-round

carousel

traffic circle

rotary

devious

circle

⭕

carrousel

whirligig

winding

ambagious

circumlocution

oblique

euphemistic

circumlocutory

detour

lengthy

long

long-winded

mealymouthed

mediate

on the other side

orbital

outer

peregrine

peripheral

periphrastic

plump

prolix

redundant

rotatory

roundabout traffic

roving

second hand

sinuous

sinuously

spiral

summerhouse

surface

tortuous

vagabond

vagrant

verbose

vicarious

voluble

wander

wordy

circumlocutious

roundabout way

Übersetzungen

rond-point

giostra

rotonda

rotatoria

rotonda

tiovivo

carrossel

manège

carrefour giratoire

tortuoso

rotonda

daaromheen

carrousel

draaimolen

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/ˈɹaʊndəˌbaʊt/

Etymologie (Englisch)

From round + about [from early 20th c.].