rondo

Meaning

Noun

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

Origin

• Borrowed from Italian rondo, from French rondeau. rondeau.