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Circus   /sˈərkəs/   Listen
Circus

noun
(pl. circuses)
1.
A travelling company of entertainers; including trained animals.
2.
A performance given by a traveling company of acrobats, clowns, and trained animals.
3.
A frenetic disorganized (and often comic) disturbance suggestive of a large public entertainment.  Synonym: carnival.  "The whole occasion had a carnival atmosphere"
4.
(antiquity) an open-air stadium for chariot races and gladiatorial games.
5.
An arena consisting of an oval or circular area enclosed by tiers of seats and usually covered by a tent.
6.
A genus of haws comprising the harriers.  Synonym: genus Circus.



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"Circus" Quotes from Famous Books



... good as a circus to the inhabitants of Airole; nay, better, for our antics could be seen gratis. The entire population of the village, and apparently of several adjacent villages, collected round the two cars. They made the ring, and—we did the rest. We ate, we drank, and they were merry at our expense. ...
— My Friend the Chauffeur • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... can recognize my scarab when you get into the museum. That shameless old green-goods man who sneaked it from me has had the gall, the nerve, to put it all by itself, with a notice as big as a circus poster alongside of it saying that it is a Cheops of the Fourth Dynasty, presented"—Mr. Peters choked—"presented by J. Preston Peters, Esquire! That's how you're ...
— Something New • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
... he plunged: his mind wandered, endless fancies haunted him, memories of Germany and of Parisian society: he was obsessed by rhythms and scraps of melody which went round, and round, and round, like horses in a circus: the sudden shock of the golden light of the Good Samaritan: the tense, stricken faces in the shadow: and then, dark nothingness and night. Then up he would come once more, wrenching away the grimacing mists, clenching his fists, and ...
— Jean Christophe: In Paris - The Market-Place, Antoinette, The House • Romain Rolland
... accomplished torero, had spent his earlier years in the circus, and was, as we all knew, a ...
— The Scalp Hunters • Mayne Reid
... I been a-totin' dis kindlin' from way up yander in Twenty-third Street where the circus useter be. Dey's buildin' a big hotel dere now—de Fifth Avenue dey calls it. I'm a-carryin' mortar for de brick-layers an' somehow dese sticks is monst'ous heavy after ...
— The Fortunes of Oliver Horn • F. Hopkinson Smith


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