in the round
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.14 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
prep_phrase
Not attached to a background.
prep_phrase
Having a stage completely surrounded by an audience.
Example Sentences
- "Noah's ark with animals in the round"
- "Not so the sculpture in the round: it stands in ordinary space with the other bodies, a body like them. We must hold fast to this outcome; it will allow us to explain the true essence of sculpture, the designation we confer on sculpture in the round alone. Painting and relief create their own space."
- "The students sat in the round."
- "There is another sense in which we can say that theatre begins in the round. Teachers in schools frequently observe that the dramatic play of children and their early attempts at theatre frequently take a natural in-the-round shape."
- "By staging national identity “in the round,” Arena opens up multifaceted perspectives of who comprises the nation and under what circumstances. Finchandler observed: “Since it has no back, front or sides, the arena becomes a highly democratic form for the audience, […].”"
- "Down in the arena, though, it was business as semi-normal with the band members making their traditional promenade through the crowd to a small in-the-round stage with a colourful player piano taking up most of the room."