ROUNDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rounder mean? 

• ROUNDER (noun)
  The noun ROUNDER has 2 senses:

1. a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained

2. a tool for rounding corners or edges

  Familiarity information: ROUNDER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROUNDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

debauchee; libertine; rounder

Hypernyms ("rounder" is a kind of...):

bad person (a person who does harm to others)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rounder"):

adulterer; fornicator (someone who commits adultery or fornication)

gigolo (a man who has sex with and is supported by a woman)

blood; profligate; rake; rakehell; rip; roue (a dissolute man in fashionable society)

ladies' man; lady killer; seducer (a man who takes advantage of women)

swinger; tramp (a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex)

debaucher; ravisher; violator (someone who assaults others sexually)

philanderer; womaniser; womanizer (a man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A tool for rounding corners or edges

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("rounder" is a kind of...):

tool (an implement used in the practice of a vocation)

Derivation:

round (make round)

 Context examples 

By his armor, sire, which is rounder at elbow and at shoulder than any of Bordeaux or of England.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For example, secondary craters are comparatively rounder than pit chains, which are more irregular.

(Dawn Explores Ceres' Interior Evolution, NASA)

On the other hand, perhaps comet 67P/C-G may have once been a much rounder object that became highly asymmetric thanks to ice evaporation.

(Rosetta Comet May Be a Contact Binary, NASA)

Little Em'ly, you see, she'll write to my sister when I go back, as I see you and as you was similarly oncommon, and so we make it quite a merry-go-rounder.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)