rondure

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UK/ˈɹɒndjʊə/US/ˈɹɑnˌd(j)ʊɹ/

noun

A graceful curvature or round object; a ring; a sphere.

OriginFrench rondeur →
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Meanings

nounrondure (countable and uncountable, plural rondures)

plural rondures

  1. countableA graceful curvature or round object; a ring; a sphere.

    […]all things rare That heaven's air in this huge rondure hems.

    1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 21”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC
    1 more example

    O vast Rondure, swimming in space, / Cover'd all over with visible power and beauty, / Alternate light and day and the teeming spiritual darkness, [...]

    1870, Walt Whitman, “Passage to India”, in Leaves of Grass […], Philadelphia, Pa.: David McKay, publisher, […], published 1892, →OCLC, stanza 5, page 318
  2. uncountableThe quality of being round; roundness.

Origin

  1. Frenchrondeur“roundness; round object”
  2. Englishrondure

Borrowed from French rondeur (“roundness; round object”), from rond (“round”) + -eur (suffix forming agent nouns from verbs).

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Translations

Bulgarian закръгленост
  • закръгленост (zakrăglenost)graceful curvature or round object

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

rounderRednourunorder
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APA

rondure. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rondure

MLA

“rondure.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rondure. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “rondure,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rondure.

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