Cirque

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A steep bowl-shaped hollow occurring at the upper end of a mountain valley, especially one forming the head of a glacier or stream. Also called cwm.
  • n. A ring; a circle.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A curved depression in a mountainside with steep walls, forming the end of a valley.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A circle; a circus; a circular erection or arrangement of objects.
  • n. A kind of circular valley in the side of a mountain, walled around by precipices of great height.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A circus.
  • n. A circle; specifically, a circle regarded as inclosing any space or surrounding any object or group of objects.
  • n. Same as comb.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain a lake
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    basin   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    circle    circus   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Berk    Burk    Burke    Dirk    Kirk    Merc    Turk    berk    berserk    birk   
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