circus
Nouns
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(n) a travelling company of entertainers; including trained animals
- he ran away from home to join the circus
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(n) a performance given by a traveling company of acrobats, clowns, and trained animals
- the children always love to go to the circus
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(n) a frenetic disorganized (and often comic) disturbance suggestive of a large public entertainment
- it was so funny it was a circus
- the whole occasion had a carnival atmosphere
- (n) (antiquity) an open-air stadium for chariot races and gladiatorial games
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(n) an arena consisting of an oval or circular area enclosed by tiers of seats and usually covered by a tent
- they used the elephants to help put up the circus
- (n) a genus of haws comprising the harriers genus Circus,