circus
A traveling company of performers that may include acrobats, clowns, trained animals, and other novelty acts, that gives shows usually in a circular tent.
Noun 3 meanings
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.
Verb 1 meaning
To take part in a circus; or to be displayed as if in a circus.
Etymology
From Middle English circus, circo, from Latin circus (“ring, circle”), from Ancient Greek κρίκος (kríkos), κίρκος (kírkos, “ring”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to bend, turn”). Doublet of cirque. Cognate with Old English hring (whence English ring) and Old English hringsetl (“circus”, literally “ring-seat”).
CIRCUS at a glance
CIRCUS has 6 letters and scores 10 points in Scrabble (C 3 + I 1 + R 1 + C 3 + U 1 + S 1) and 13 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #7,205 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with circus
All rhymes- FOCUS10
- CAUCUS10
- LOCUS7
- MUCUS9
- MENISCUS12
- DISCUS9
- HIBISCUS15
- AMICUS10
- REFOCUS12
- ABACUS10
- STAPHYLOCOCCUS28
- HOCUS10
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- CIRRUS8
- CERCUS10
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