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