Usually means: Encircling or near a location.
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  1. around: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. around: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. around: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. around: Collins English Dictionary
  5. around: Vocabulary.com
  6. Around, around: Wordnik
  7. around: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. around: Wiktionary
  9. around: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. around: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. around: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Around, around: Dictionary.com
  13. around: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. around: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Around (album), Around (song): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Around: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. around: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. around: Rhymezone
  19. around: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. around: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. around: Free Dictionary
  22. around: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. around: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. around: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. around: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. around: Merriam-Webster.com

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  1. around: Encyclopedia

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  1. around: Idioms

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  1. around: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (informal, predicative only, with the verb "to be") Present in the vicinity.
adjective:  (informal, predicative only, with the verb "to be") Alive; existing.
adverb:  So as to form a circle or trace a circular path, or approximation thereof.
adverb:  So as to surround or be near.
adverb:  Nearly; approximately; about.
adverb:  From place to place.
adverb:  From one state or condition to an opposite or very different one; with a metaphorical change in direction; bringing about awareness or agreement.
adverb:  (with turn, spin, etc.) So as to partially or completely rotate; so as to face in the opposite direction.
adverb:  Used with verbs to indicate repeated or continuous action, or in numerous locations or with numerous people.
adverb:  Used with certain verbs to suggest unproductive activity.

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