Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In architecture, topped with a semicircular arch, as a window or doorway.
  • Having a round head or top: as, a round-headed nail or rivet.
  • Hence, having the hair of the head cut short; close-cropped; specifically, belonging or pertaining to the Roundheads or Parliamentarians.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having a round head or top.

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  • adjective Having a round head or top.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having a brachycephalic head

Etymologies

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round +‎ headed

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Examples

  • A pop song about a roundheaded kid in a pointy-headed village and his trusty dog.

    Readers recommend: songs with famous last words Paul MacInnes 2010

  • Not sure how I did that, except maybe that I mistakenly remembered everyone being as roundheaded as him.

    A question about comics shweta_narayan 2009

  • It was easy to see that there were a few roundheaded troopers amongst them, the true spawn of the old Covenant.

    Old Mortality 2004

  • Then I thought I had to do with the son of an old roundheaded rebel, and the nephew of a sordid presbyterian laird; now I know your points better, and there is that about you which I respect in an enemy as much as I like in a friend.

    Old Mortality 2004

  • They did not extend themselves in any one direction; they were not occupied with any single idea; they became simply roundheaded.

    Shallow Soil 2003

  • He was a handsome, roundheaded boy with a wary gaze.

    Dreams From My Father Obama, Barack 1995

  • Behind them, the brown earth dipped into a smoldering dump where a pair of roundheaded tots frantically chased a scrawny black hen.

    Dreams From My Father Obama, Barack 1995

  • The landscape was dominated by the massive church, with its roundheaded arches and small, deep windows, just as the village was dominated by the monastery.

    The Pillars of the Earth FOLLETT, Ken 1989

  • Yet most dwellers remained what then - forebears must always have been, strongly built, roundheaded, dark of hair but fair of skin.

    The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989

  • Yet most dwellers remained what then - forebears must always have been, strongly built, roundheaded, dark of hair but fair of skin.

    The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1988

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