Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

revolve around

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.24 in modern English

Syllables: re-volve around
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To rotate about (an axis); to orbit.

verb

To be essentially connected with; to concern.

Example Sentences

"The Earth revolves around the Sun."
"His life revolves around beer and bad jokes."
"In Chapter 1 we learned the fundamental security concepts revolving around the DMZ, what the DMZ is, and how to design a basic DMZ with traffic flows."
"However, at that time I was already into the mode and interest of another important topic of international law revolving around the principle of sovereignty and territorial integrity and self-determination related mainly to secessionist movements."

Inflected Forms

revolves around (present, singular) revolving around (participle, present) revolved around (participle, past) revolved around (past)

Synonyms

circle around circle round focus on center on revolve about concentrate on center centre

Questions

What does revolve around mean?: To rotate about (an axis); to orbit.

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