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Synonyms for circus
ˈsɜr kəscir·cus

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  1. circusnoun

    a travelling company of entertainers; including trained animals

    "he ran away from home to join the circus"

    Synonyms:
    carnival, genus Circus

  2. circusnoun

    a performance given by a traveling company of acrobats, clowns, and trained animals

    "the children always love to go to the circus"

    Synonyms:
    carnival, genus Circus

  3. circus, carnivalnoun

    a frenetic disorganized (and often comic) disturbance suggestive of a large public entertainment

    "it was so funny it was a circus"; "the whole occasion had a carnival atmosphere"

    Synonyms:
    fair, funfair, carnival, genus Circus

  4. circusnoun

    (antiquity) an open-air stadium for chariot races and gladiatorial games

    Synonyms:
    carnival, genus Circus

  5. circusnoun

    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"

    Synonyms:
    carnival, genus Circus

  6. Circus, genus Circusnoun

    a genus of haws comprising the harriers

    Synonyms:
    carnival, genus Circus

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "circus":

    cirque, circo, sideshow, madhouse, carnival, builshit

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#8321carnival
#9600circus
#20721cirque
#30320sideshow
#74005madhouse
#87927circo
#154627funfair

How to use circus in a sentence?

  1. Charlotte Yeh:

    It was like a three-ring circus.

  2. Dan Pfeiffer:

    I expect 2016 will look a lot like 2015, the president and his team continuing to put substantive legacy-worth points on the board while the political circus is focused on Trump and the rest.

  3. Jerid Grandinetti:

    The original advertising campaign in 1953 was built around circus iconography.

  4. Cara Louise:

    My 5-year-old boy is really into dressing up for every occasion so we did the inside up with a circus theme and he dressed as It, so the prop in the garden was part of our theme.

  5. Janet Davis:

    Elephants become this incredibly important signature part of the circus.


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