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circus

English

  1. 🔊 a performance given by a traveling company of acrobats, clowns, and trained animals
    “the children always love to go to the circus”
  2. 🔊 a frenetic disorganized (and often comic) disturbance suggestive of a large public entertainment
    “it was so funny it was a circus”
  3. 🔊 a genus of haws comprising the harriers
  4. 🔊 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”
  5. 🔊 (antiquity) an open-air stadium for chariot races and gladiatorial games
  6. 🔊 a travelling company of entertainers
    “he ran away from home to join the circus”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 circense circus
  2. 🔊 cirquero circus

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