Definitions for cirques

cirques cirque

Spelling: [surk]
IPA: /sɜrk/

Cirques is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 142 anagrams from letters in cirques (ceiqrsu).

Definitions for cirques

noun

  1. circle; ring.
  2. a bowl-shaped, steep-walled mountain basin carved by glaciation, often containing a small, round lake.

Origin of cirques

1595-1605; French Latin circus; see circus

Examples for cirques

Is the cirque under these circumstances a result of the schrund or is the schrund a result of the cirque?

These avalanches were once believed to be the authors of the cirque.

The hour's walk from the village to the cirque is an event also in the life of the flower-lover.

When Vial got that first assignment, she was just beginning her photography career, and cirque du Soleil was only a few years old.

Twenty-eight years ago, Veronique Vial was asked to photograph cirque du Soleil.

The pride and admiration Vial has for the artists who put on cirque du Soleil is evident.

A cirque (fig. 8) is shaped something like an office arm-chair.

cirque du Soleil obviously sprang to startling success with a variety of shows since its 1987 founding.

The cirque, therefore, is at once the product of the glacier and its generator and conserver.

But no matter where her career has taken her, or how big the cirque has become, Vial keeps coming back.

Word Value for cirques
Scrable

17

Words with friends

19

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