Circus is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CIRCUS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a public entertainment
• a travelling company of acrobats, clowns, and other entertainers which gives performances, typically in a large tent, in a series of different places
• a large group of people travelling together on the circuit of a particular high-profile activity
• a public scene of frenetic, noisy, or confused activity
• (in ancient Rome) a rounded or oval arena lined with tiers of seats, used for equestrian and other sports and games
• a rounded open space in a town or city where several streets converge
• travelling company of acrobats, clowns, performing animals, etc
• A level oblong space surrounded on three sides by seats of wood, earth, or stone, rising in tiers one above another, and divided lengthwise through the middle by a barrier around which the track or course was laid out. It was used for chariot races, games, and public shows.
• A circular inclosure for the exhibition of feats of horsemanship, acrobatic displays, etc. Also, the company of performers, with their equipage.
• Circuit; space; inclosure.
• a travelling company of entertainers; including trained animals
• a performance given by a traveling company of acrobats, clowns, and trained animals
• a frenetic disorganized (and often comic) disturbance suggestive of a large public entertainment
• (antiquity) an open-air stadium for chariot races and gladiatorial games
• an arena consisting of an oval or circular area enclosed by tiers of seats and usually covered by a tent
• a genus of haws comprising the harriers

Words related to CIRCUS

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Words that contain CIRCUS

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How to use CIRCUS in a sentence

• After Sunday-school the boys broke for the circus grounds.
• Three months later I heard that he had been with a travelling circus company, but had left them after a few days.
• He went out, and in the twilight stood upon the mountains, whence he could overlook, but with other eyes than once, the city which was to be the circus and theatre of his powers.
• While in Paris, in the spring of 1878, I witnessed an accident in a circus, which for a time made me renounce all athletic exhibitions.
• I left the circus, and hundreds of others did the same.
• One of them was a heavy, gross, dark-skinned man, with the careless bearing of one who had been nursed in a circus.
• He was, in those night hours, again the boy who had prayed for fair weather for circus day and had promised in return to read his Bible through during the next year.
• He had suggested playing circus and he ought to have been allowed to play the part of the elephant.
• The circus men were tired and cross and made the children keep out of the way.
• They could smell the mush and potatoes frying for their early dinner when Danny returned from the circus ground.
• Then the band struck into a lively air and circus attendants and spectators ran up to the elephants.
• On bright evenings it was the most enjoyable part of the journey home, this ride from Piccadilly Circus to Hammersmith.
• Finally, scarcely conscious of arriving at any definite decision, he walked slowly back across the Circus in the direction of Lower Regent Street.
• They might have been in the circus or the theatre, clamouring for entertainment.
• It would look more like a real circus with three performers.
• It was talked of in many a farmhouse, and it was this talk of the little circus that had made Bunker, Ben and the other big boys want to give a larger show of their own.
• The benches round the circus were crowded with children and with boys of all ages, who were in a fever of impatience to see the famous little donkey Pinocchio dance.
• The circus was large enough to contain three hundred thousand persons.
• At least they had got her an engagement, and a circus had always represented to her the very height of romance.
• But the whirlpool of Carthaginian habits had, when he lived there, drawn him into follies of the circus.
• It was circus day, and there were few in the street.
• CHAPTER IV WHAT HAPPENED AT THE CIRCUS The lads had not seen a circus for two years, consequently the show had much of the air of novelty about it for them.
• Even during the period of joyful anticipation some fear of breaking the spell had kept me from any bald circus talk in the presence of them.
• I felt like bowing right and left to them, the way queens and circus girls do.
• It was a quarter past eleven and I led him to a restaurant near Piccadilly Circus which was still open and busy.
• After the circus really began, it seemed to Mary Jane that she must be in a dream.
• There was a circus in the village that day, and it brought the country people into the town in larger numbers than usual.

Similar words containing CIRCU without suffix s

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