circus: betydning og definisjoner

A public entertainment consisting typically of a variety of performances by acrobats, clowns, and trained animals.

A traveling company that performs such entertainments.

A circular arena, surrounded by tiers of seats and often covered by a tent, in which such shows are performed.

A roofless oval enclosure surrounded by tiers of seats that was used in antiquity for public spectacles.

Chiefly British An open circular place where several streets intersect.

Informal Something suggestive of a circus, as in frenetic activity or noisy disorder: "The city is a circus of the senses” ( William H. Gass).