rounder

noun

round·​er ˈrau̇n-dər 

1

rounders plural in form but singular in construction : a game of English origin that is played with ball and bat and that somewhat resembles baseball

2

: a dissolute person : wastrel

3

: one that rounds by hand or by machine

4

: a boxing match lasting a specified number of rounds

—usually used in combination

a 10-rounder

5

sports : a player selected in a specified round of a draft (see draft entry 1 sense 9c)

—used in combination

a first-rounder [=a player selected in the first round]

The fourth running back drafted, this second-rounder leads all rookies with 562 rushing yards.

—Jarrett Bell

Examples of rounder in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Dvorsky and Jiricek also scored, and with Stenberg’s two assists, the five first-rounders accounted for as many points. —Jeremy Rutherford, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025

Musgrove’s more immediate concern after signing with the Blue Jays for $500,000 as a supplemental first-rounder in 2011 was gadgets. —Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2025

The Patriots are trading wide receiver Ja’Lynn Polk and a 2028 seventh-round pick to the Saints for a 2027 sixth-rounder, a source confirmed to the Herald’s Doug Kyed. —Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025

Jones regressed in 2022 and 2023 before New England traded the 2021 first-rounder to the Jacksonville Jaguars. —Tim Crowley, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1828, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Phrases Containing rounder

• all-rounder

Rhymes for rounder

• flounder
• founder
• pounder
• sounder
• cofounder
• compounder
• expounder
• profounder