circus
/ˈsɝkəs/ noun B1- A traveling company of performers that may include acrobats, clowns, trained animals, and other novelty acts, that gives shows usually in a circular tent. · The circus will be in town next week.
- A round open space in a town or city where multiple streets meet. · Oxford Circus in London is at the north end of Regent Street.
- A spectacle; a noisy fuss; a chaotic and/or crowded place.
- An undertaking or arrangement.
- In the ancient Roman Empire, a building for chariot racing.
- A code name for bomber attacks with fighter escorts in the day time. The attacks were against short-range targets with the intention of occupying enemy fighters and keeping their fighter units in the area concerned.
Plural circuses
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“A man who goes up in a balloon on circus day, so as to draw a crowd of people together and get them to pay to see the circus,” he explained.
I’d much rather go back to Kansas with you and be in a circus again.”
At the great circus on the green;
If it please you, she went to the circus last night along with——”
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