How to pronounce round

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What round means

noun

Most people know round in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.

A song in which voices start one after another

In a sentence: Our class sang Row, Row, Row Your Boat as a round, with each group starting a line later.

Where it comes from: It is the same word as round, shaped like a circle, which came through French from the Latin rotundus. In a round, the tune keeps coming back around.

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