Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Roundness; sphericity; globular form.
- noun Rounded fullness; integral entireness.
- noun Synonyms See
roundness .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being rotu�; roundness; sphericity; circularity.
- noun Hence, completeness; entirety; roundness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality of being
rotund .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the fullness of a tone of voice
- noun the roundness of a 3-dimensional object
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Examples
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Women of incredible corpulence were dawdling about through the cultivated grounds, and the doctor greatly surprised his companions by informing them that this rotundity, which is highly esteemed in that region, was obtained by an obligatory diet of curdled milk.
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Also, better fed, there was about his less meagre figure a foreshadowing of the melon-seed rotundity that was to attach to him in future years.
THE TEARS OF AH KIM 2010
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Christopher Benjamin's Falstaff is, however, no stereotypical rotundity à la Orson Welles.
Rodney Punt: The Merry Wives of Windsor -- Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Tours Santa Monica's Broad Stage Rodney Punt 2010
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Christopher Benjamin's Falstaff is, however, no stereotypical rotundity à la Orson Welles.
Rodney Punt: The Merry Wives of Windsor -- Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Tours Santa Monica's Broad Stage Rodney Punt 2010
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Christopher Benjamin's Falstaff is, however, no stereotypical rotundity à la Orson Welles.
Rodney Punt: The Merry Wives of Windsor -- Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Tours Santa Monica's Broad Stage Rodney Punt 2010
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Wikipedia describes a "bra-like device that gave a symmetrical rotundity to the wearer's breasts, patented in 1859 by Henry S. Lesher of Brooklyn, New York."
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Over the years, he has maintained a pleasant rotundity, scoffing at our attempts to restrict his diet.
Gayatri Devi, M.D.: Dementia in Dogs and Cats: The Story of Max and Wolfie 2010
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The popularity of error, and the unpopularity of truth;: Having special reference to the old Copernican and later Newtonian theory of the rotundity and revolution of the earth by John Hampden
OpEdNews - Quicklink: New GOP Standard Bearer Rush Limbaugh Is Less Popular Than Jeremiah Wright 2009
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It was his way of disarming, I thought, any horror I might have felt at his own pudding-like rotundity, which had trebled since I had seen him last.
Literary Companion 2007
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As irritating as this was, I opted not to chide him, and instead simply left him to wallow in his grief and rotundity.
BSNYC Firday Fun Quiz! BikeSnobNYC 2009
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