Definition of roulette written for English Language Learners from the Merriam-Webster Learner's Dictionary with audio pronunciations, usage examples, and count/noncount noun labels. What does roulette mean? Roulette is defined by the lexicographers at Oxford Dictionaries as A gambling game in which a ball is dropped on to a revolving wheel with numbered compartments, the players betting on.
n- a gambling game in which a ball is dropped onto a spinning horizontal wheel divided into 37 or 38 coloured and numbered slots, with players betting on the slot into which the ball will fall
- a toothed wheel for making a line of perforations
- a curve generated by a point on one curve rolling on another
Definition Of French Word Roulette
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- to use a roulette on (something), as in engraving, making stationery, etc
Definition Of The Word Router
Etymology: 18th Century: from French, from rouelle a little wheel, from roue a wheel, from Latin rota