round

Of shape:

We sat at a round table to make conversation easier.

The flowers glowed red and golden: snapdragons and sunflowers, and nasturtians^([sic]) trailing all over the turf walls and peeping in at the round windows.

Of shape:

The ancient Egyptian demonstrated that the Earth is round, not flat.

Of shape:

a round belly

a round face

Of shape:

Our child's bed has round corners for safety.

Of shape:

He was tall and thin but his wife was short and round.

A circular or spherical object or part of an object.

in labyrinth of many a round self-rolled

Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. [...] She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.

A circular or repetitious route.

hospital rounds

The prison guards have started their nightly rounds.

A general outburst from a group of people at an event.

The candidate got a round of applause after every sentence or two.

A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time.

A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group.

They brought us a round of drinks about every thirty minutes.

There is a snaky gleam in her hard grey eye, as of anticipated rounds of buttered toast, relays of hot chops, worryings and quellings of young children, sharp snappings at poor Berry, and all the other delights of her Ogress's castle.

Alternative form of around.

I look round the room quickly to make sure it's neat.

The serpent Error twines round human hearts.

Alternative form of around.

The farmer fed his cow hay all the year round.