Usually means: Performance featuring acrobats, clowns, animals.
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  1. circus: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Circus, Circus, circus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. circus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. circus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Circus, circus: Vocabulary.com
  6. Circus, circus: Wordnik
  7. circus: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. circus: Wiktionary
  9. circus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. circus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. circus: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Circus, circus: Dictionary.com
  13. circus: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. circus: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Circus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. circus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. circus: Rhymezone
  19. circus, circus (het): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. circus: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. circus: Free Dictionary
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  24. circus: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
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Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Circus (performing art), Circus (performing arts), circus: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Circus (performing art), Circus (performing arts), Circus: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. CIRCUS: Acronym Finder
  3. circus: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. circus: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. circus: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  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:  A round open space in a town or city where multiple streets meet.
noun:  (figurative) A spectacle; a noisy fuss; a chaotic and/or crowded place.
noun:  (historical) In the ancient Roman Empire, a building for chariot racing.
noun:  (military, World War II) A code name for bomber attacks with fighter escorts in the day time. The attacks were against short-range targets with the intention of occupying enemy fighters and keeping their fighter units in the area concerned.
noun:  (obsolete) Circuit; space; enclosure.
verb:  To take part in a circus; or to be displayed as if in a circus

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