circus

Meanings

Noun

• a travelling company of entertainers; including trained animals
  • "he ran away from home to join the circus"
• a performance given by a traveling company of acrobats, clowns, and trained animals
  • "the children always love to go to the circus"
• a frenetic disorganized (and often comic) disturbance suggestive of a large public entertainment
  • "it was so funny it was a circus"
• (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
  • "they used the elephants to help put up the circus"
• a genus of haws comprising the harriers

Synonyms

carnival, genus Circus