Definitions for circus

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circus cir·cus

Spelling: [sur-kuh s]

IPA: /ˈsɜr kəs/

Circus is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 69 anagrams from letters in circus (ccirsu).

Definitions for circus

noun

1. a large public entertainment, typically presented in one or more very large tents or in an outdoor or indoor arena, featuring exhibitions of pageantry, feats of skill and daring, performing animals, etc., interspersed throughout with the slapstick antics of clowns. Compare big top.
2. a troupe of performers, especially a traveling troupe, that presents such entertainments, together with officials, other employees, and the company's performing animals, traveling wagons, tents, cages, and equipment.
3. a circular arena surrounded by tiers of seats, in which public entertainments are held; arena.
4. a large, usually oblong or oval, roofless enclosure, surrounded by tiers of seats rising one above another, for chariot races, public games, etc. an entertainment given in this Roman arena, as a chariot race or public game:
5. anything resembling the Roman circus, or arena, as a natural amphitheater or a circular range of houses.
6. flying circus.
7. British. an open circle, square, or plaza where several streets converge:
8. fun, excitement, or uproar; a display of rowdy sport.
9. Obsolete. a circlet or ring.

Origin of circus

1350-1400; Middle English Latin: circular region of the sky, oval space in which games were held, akin to (or borrowed from) Greek kírkos ring, circle

Examples for circus

The meeting was held in the vast auditorium of the circus Building, which was filled.

If Monsieur the Director of the circus comes now he will go in the special car.

circus parades often became as large a sight as the performance itself; one Barnum and Bailey parade stretched for three miles.

The modern era of the circus is inseparable from several names you may have encountered.

It was a circus really, but that the worshippers did not know.

The circus is now performing 18 shows around the world, with eight performances in Las Vegas alone each night.

In 1870, the very Germanically-named August Ruengling fixed a harness for a circus rider and obtained free passes for his family.

If you stop her off there, I dunno but she'd jine a circus or take to drink!

The first man to approach the wicket was the Director of the circus.

It helps that the circus is like a family—only one that can choose its members.