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Definition of Roundhead

1. Noun. A brachycephalic person.

2. Noun. A supporter of parliament and Oliver Cromwell during the English Civil War.

Definition of Roundhead

1. n. A nickname for a Puritan. See Roundheads, the, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

Definition of Roundhead

1. Proper noun. A nickname given to the supporters of parliament during the English Civil War. ¹

2. Adjective. Describing the head of a screw that is dome shaped. ¹

3. Noun. A roundhead screw, one with a domed head. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Roundhead

Rotumans Rouen Rouget's bulb Rouget's muscle Rouget's rail Rouget-Neumann sheath Rouget cell Rough Rider Roughton-Scholander apparatus Roughton-Scholander syringe

Rougnon-Heberden disease Roumania Roumanian Roumanians Round Table Roundhead (current term) Roundheads Rounds Rous Rous sarcoma

Rous sarcoma virus Rous sarcoma virus protease Rous tumour Roussanne Rousseau Rousseauan Rousseauesque Rousseauian Rousseauians

Literary usage of Roundhead

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography by Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1893)
"It was for a long time known in the army as the " Roundhead Order." The real object of the order was the abolishment of the " queue," or " pigtail" as it ..."

2. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography by Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1893)
"COLONEL THOMAS BUTLER AND GENERAL WILKINSON'S "Roundhead ORDER. ... It was for a long time known in the army as the " Roundhead Order. ..."

3. A Book of English Literature, Selected and Ed by Robert Grant Martin (1916)
"30 THE CHARACTER OF A Roundhead What creature's this with his short hairs, His little band, and huge long ears, That this new faith hath founded? ..."

4. A Book of English Literature, Selected and Ed by Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin (1916)
"THE CHARACTER OF A Roundhead What creature's this with his short hai His little band, and huge long ears, ' That this new faith hath founded? ..."

5. A History of English Poetry by William John Courthope (1903)
"CHAPTER XI CAVALIER AND Roundhead MARQUIS OF MONTROSE: RICHARD LOVELACE: LORD FALKLAND: JOHN CLEVELAND : SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT : ANDREW MARVELL : GEORGE ..."

6. History of the United States of America: Under the Constitution by James Schouler (1917)
"... broke out a new civil strife between Cavalier and Roundhead, while the great conservative population that stood between them exhausted every effort to ..."

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