rondo

Borrowed from Italian rondo, from French rondeau.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɒn.dəʊ/
• Rhymes: -ɒndəʊ
• Homophone: rondeau

rondo (countable and uncountable, plural rondos)

1. (music, countable) A musical composition, commonly of a lively, cheerful character, in which the first strain recurs after each of the other strains.
2. (countable) A small, disk-shaped piece of food, especially a single-serving dessert or small piece of candy.
3. (countable) A dark-skinned grape, a hybrid of Vitis vinifera with Vitis amurensis and others.
4. (uncountable) A game resembling keep-away, used to train soccer players: one group is tasked with completing a number of passes while the other group tries to take possession of the ball.
5. (obsolete, uncountable) A gambling game played with small balls on a table.

• Noord, donor

• IPA^(key): /ˈrondo/

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• Hyphenation: ron‧do

rondo (accusative singular rondon, plural rondoj, accusative plural rondojn)

1. circle (as in a group of people)

• rondoplaco

rondo (invariable)

1. (music) rondò

rondo m (plural rondos)

1. (soccer) keep-away; piggy in the middle

rondo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of rondar.