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ro·tund    Audio Help   [roh-tuhnd] Pronunciation Key
–adjective
1.round in shape; rounded: ripe, rotund fruit.
2.plump; fat.
3.full-toned or sonorous: rotund speeches.

[Origin: 1695–1705; < L rotundus round, circular, deriv. of rota wheel; cf. round1]

ro·tund·ly, adverb

2. obese, fleshy, corpulent, stout, portly.
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ro·tund    Audio Help   (rō-tŭnd')  Pronunciation Key 
adj.  
  1. Rounded in figure; plump. See Synonyms at fat.
  2. Having a full, rich sound; sonorous.


[Latin rotundus; see ret- in Indo-European roots.]

ro·tun'di·ty, ro·tund'ness n., ro·tund'ly adv.
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rotund 
1705, from L. rotundus "round, circular, like a wheel," from rota "wheel" (see rotary). Meaning "full-toned style of oratory" (1830) is after Horace's ore rotundo in "Poetics."

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rotund

adjective
1. spherical in shape 
2. (of sounds) full and rich; "orotund tones"; "the rotund and reverberating phrase"; "pear-shaped vowels" [syn: orotund
3. excessively fat; "a weighty man" [syn: corpulent

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Rotund

Ro*tund"\, a. [L. rotundus. See Round, and cf. Rotunda.]

1. Round; circular; spherical.

2. Hence, complete; entire.

3. (Bot.) Orbicular, or nearly so. --Gray.
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Rotund

Ro*tund"\, n. A rotunda. [Obs.] --Burke.
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