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Definition: Cirque |
CirqueNoun1. A steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain a lake. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cirque" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Cirque \Cirque\, noun. [French expression, from the Latin expression circus.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Geography | The heads of many glaciated valleys. . . are shaped like a theatre, or half bowl. . . . The feature is. . . known as a --. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Cirque has several meanings:
- A cirque is an amphitheatre-like valley of glacial origin, formed by glacial erosion at the head of the glacier. Also known as a cwm in Welsh.
- Cirque is the title of a science fiction novel by Terry Carr.
- Cirque is French for circus. For example, see Cirque du Soleil, Cirque de Flambe.
- Cirque Corporation is a company that makes touchpads.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cirque."
Synonyms: CirqueSynonyms: corrie (n), cwm (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Cirque |
| Specialty definitions using "cirque": rock glacier. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "cirque": Circus. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Cirque" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (circus, cirque). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Le Cirque de Calder (1961) Gharam fil cirque (1960) Le Fils du cirque (1960) L' Orphelin du cirque (1925) Cirque hollandais (1924) | |
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| "French Cross" by Philip Jackson Commentary: "Cross above a waterfall in the cirque de navacelles, France." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "Cirque" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Cirque" is used about 33 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 66.67% | 22 | 74,468 |
| Noun (proper) | 27.27% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 6.06% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 33 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "cirque"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | سيرك (circs, circus). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | циркус (circus), арена (arena, lists, scene, theater, theatre), амфитеатър (amphitheatre). (various references) | |
Czech | cirkus (circus). (various references) | |
Danish | cirkusdal (trough valley). (various references) | |
Dutch | kaar (trough valley). (various references) | |
Finnish | onsilo (trough valley). (various references) | |
French | cirque (circus). (various references) | |
German | Trogtal (strath, trough valley), Kar (trough valley). (various references) | |
Greek | παγετώδης αμφιθεατρική μορφή (trough valley). (various references) | |
Italian | circo glaciale. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | irquecay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | circo glaciário (trough valley), circo (amphitheater, amphitheatre, circus), espaço circular, arena (arena, ring). (various references) | |
Russian | амфитеатр (amphitheater, amphitheatre, circus, parquet circle). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | cirkularni prostor, prirodni amfiteatar. (various references) | |
Spanish | circo glaciar (trough valley), circo (Amphitheater, amphitheatre, circus), plaza redonda (circus), glorieta (circus, roundabout, square, summerhouse, traffic circle roundabout), artesa glaciar (trough valley). (various references) | |
Swedish | cirkus (circus, hippodrome), glaciärnisch (trough valley), arena (arena). (various references) | |
Turkish | doğal amfiteatr, buzyalağı, arena (arena, bullring, circus). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | кільце (circle, circus, coil, grummet, hoop, orb, ring, ringlet), круг (circle, circus, gyre, ring), кружок (circlet), арена (arena, circus, stage), амфітеатр (amphitheatre, bowl, parterre). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cirque": cirques. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cirque" (pronounced ser"k) |
| 3 | s er" k | berserk. |
| 2 | -er" k | Birk, Burke, clerk, Dirk, irk, jerk, Kirk, lurk, Merk, murk, overwork, perk, quirk, rework, shirk, smirk, turk, work. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-q-r-u" | |
-1 letter: curie, quire, ureic. | |
-2 letters: cire, cure, ecru, rice, uric. | |
-3 letters: cue, cur, ecu, ice, ire, rec, rei, rue. | |
-4 letters: er, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-q-r-u" | |
+1 letter: acquire, cirques, quicker. | |
+2 letters: acquired, acquirer, acquires, cliquier, critique, quercine. | |
+3 letters: acquirers, acquitter, critiqued, critiques, jacquerie, liquorice, quercetin, quickener, reacquire. | |
+4 letters: acquirable, acquitters, chequering, conquering, coquetries, croqueting, jacqueries, lacquering, liquorices, microquake, picaresque, quackeries, quadriceps, quercetins, quercitron, quickeners, quinacrine, reacquaint, reacquired, reacquires, requiescat, squelchier. | |
+5 letters: acquirement, aquiculture, chloroquine, corequisite, croquignole, equicaloric, equivocator, frequencies, infrequence, infrequency, microquakes, picaresques, picturesque, quercitrons, quicksilver, quinacrines, reacquaints, reacquiring, requiescats, squirearchy. | |
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