CIRCUMFERENCE - Definition & Meaning for Kids

Simple definitions and word synonyms for kids.

Part of speech: Noun

the size of something as given by the distance around it

Categories: Size

Part of speech: Noun

the boundary line encompassing an area or object

Example: he had walked the full circumference of his land; a danger to all races over the whole circumference of the globe

Categories: Boundary line, Border, Borderline, Delimitation, Mete

Part of speech: Noun

the length of the closed curve of a circle

Categories: Length

The word "circumference" comes from Latin circumferentia.

Many Latin words entered English twice—once through French and once through direct borrowing.