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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.

  Example: The circus will be in town next week.

• A round open space in a town or city where multiple streets meet.

  Example: Oxford Circus in London is at the north end of Regent Street.

• A spectacle; a noisy fuss; a chaotic and/or crowded place.

• In the ancient Roman Empire, a building for chariot racing.

• (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.

• Circuit; space; enclosure.

verb

• To take part in a circus; or to be displayed as if in a circus