ALL-ROUND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does all-round mean? 

• ALL-ROUND (adjective)
  The adjective ALL-ROUND has 1 sense:

1. many-sided

  Familiarity information: ALL-ROUND used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALL-ROUND (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Many-sided

Synonyms:

all-around; all-round; well-rounded

Context example:

a well-rounded curriculum

Similar:

comprehensive (including all or everything)

 Context examples 

This is an all-round useful stain for many things, including glycogen, mucin, mucoprotein, glycoprotein, as well as fungi.

(Periodic Acid Schiff Staining Method, NCI Thesaurus)

But amid these varied ornaments there were scattered the trophies which brought back strongly to my recollection the fact that Lord John Roxton was one of the great all-round sportsmen and athletes of his day.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)