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Meaning of "round hand" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ROUND HAND

round hand play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ROUND HAND

noun
adjective
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adverb
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preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Round hand is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ROUND HAND MEAN IN ENGLISH?

round hand

Round hand

Round Hand is a type of handwriting and calligraphy originating in England in the 1660s primarily by the writing masters John Ayers and William Banson. Characterised by an open flowing hand and subtle contrast of thick and thin strokes deriving from metal pointed nibs, its popularity rapidly grew, becoming codified as a standard through the publication of printed writing manuals.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ROUND HAND

round about
round and round
round angle
round arch
round clam
round dance
round down
round file
round off
round on
round out
round robin
round table
round the bend
round the corner
round the twist
round the Wrekin
round top
round tower
round trip

WORDS THAT END LIKE ROUND HAND

a free hand
a heavy hand
at first hand
at hand
at second hand
by hand
come to hand
first hand
from hand to hand
hand
hand in hand
hat in hand
helping hand
in hand
on hand
out of hand
second hand
take in hand
the upper hand
to hand
upper hand

Synonyms and antonyms of round hand in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «round hand» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ROUND HAND

Find out the translation of round hand to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of round hand from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «round hand» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

手轮
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

letra redonda
570 millions of speakers

English

round hand
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

दौर हाथ
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ومن ناحية مستديرة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

круглый руки
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

mão rodada
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বৃত্তাকার হাত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

main ronde
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tangan bulat
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Runde Hand
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ラウンドハンド
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

라운드 손
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bunder tangan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Mặt tròn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சுற்று கரம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गोल हात
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Yuvarlak el
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

mano rotondo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

runda rękę
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

круглий руки
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

mână rotund
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

στρογγυλό χέρι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ronde hand
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

runda sidan
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

rund hånd
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of round hand

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ROUND HAND»

The term «round hand» is regularly used and occupies the 91.691 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ROUND HAND» OVER TIME

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ROUND HAND»

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1
The Bookseller
ROUND HAND. 4. INTRODUCTION TO SMALL HAND. Published by GEORGE PHILIP & SON, 32, FLEET STREET, LONDON; and Caxton Buildings, South John Street, Liverpool. SOLD BY ALL BOOKSELLERS. 2d. Foolscap Series ...
‎1863
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Bookseller: The Organ of the Book Trade
9. Hound-hand. 10. Small-hand. 11. Text, Round, and Small- hand. 12. Lessons in Current-hand. 13. Large-text Wordl. H. 15. Large-text, Text, and Round-hand. hi. Text-hand Sentence*. 17. Round-hand Sentence*. 18. Small-hand Sentences.
‎1862
3
Lectures ... to working men
1 Strokes and Turns 2 Letters 3 Short Wordi 4 Large Hand 6 Text Hand 5£ Text & Round Hand 6 Round Hand 6J Round and Small Hand 7 Small Hand 7£ Initiatory Small Hand 8 Angular Small Hand 0 Text, Round, and Small Hands 10 Large ...
Arthur Mursell, 1860
4
Studies in Late Modern English Correspondence: Methodology ...
1758), his large 'Round Text' has thick straight long down-strokes, and the smaller version of it called 'Modern Round Hand for Business' (used for invoices, bills of lading etc.)19 has the same extreme thick/thin contrast of strokes, but his ...
Marina Dossena, Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, 2008
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Selected Essays Ont the History of Letter-forms in ...
The spread of the round hand at home may be seen in the works of John Langton who taught at Stamford. He was a writing-master and more than a writing-master. The specimens in his Round Hand Copy Boole (1723?), being pleasantly ...
Stanley Morison, David John McKitterick, 2009
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Unpublished Documents, Marginal Notes and Memoranda in the ...
Pages 334 to 380 are in the larger round hand; page 351 and part of page 350 being in the large upright and coarser round hand. Pages 381 to 496 are in the small and large upright cursive hands. Pages 497 and 498 are in the large round  ...
Samuel Leigh Sotheby, 1840
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The Culture and Commerce of Texts: Scribal Publication in ...
None the less, by the end of the century both the mixed hand and pure italic had yielded to the so-called 'round hand'. Palaeographers differ on the criteria used to distinguish this from the less formal versions of italic. Petti helpfully nominates ...
Harold Love, 1998
8
Observations Upon the Handwriting of Philip Melanchthon: ...
Pages 334 to 380 are in the larger round hand ; page 351 and part of page 350 being in the large upright and coarser round hand. Pages 381 to 496 are in the small and large upright cursive hands. Pages 497 and 498 are in the large round  ...
Samuel Leigh Sotheby, 1839
9
Obsevations upon the handwriting of Philip Melanchthon ...
Pages 334 to 380 are in the larger round hand; page 351 and part of page 350 being in the large upright and coarser round hand. Pages 381 to 496 are in the small and large upright cursive hands. Pages 497 and 498 are in the large round  ...
Samuel-Leigh Sotheby, 1839
10
Learning to Read and Write in Colonial America
(The fact that round hand is as legible today to us as it was to its eighteenth- century users is a tribute to its longevity: we still use a form of this script.) The round hand is much in evidence in the second of the three parts of the Universal Penman ...
E. Jennifer Monaghan, 2005

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« EDUCALINGO. Round hand [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/round-hand>. Apr 2024 ».
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