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/ˈsɜːkəs/ · 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..
The circus will be in town next week.
Oxford Circus in London is at the north end of Regent Street.
The village would be turned into a circus over this. He groaned, it was just the sort of case the media had a field day over. He had to get the whole thing sorted fast before anyone got wind of it.
"Right you are; I'll put him wise," undertook Nickle briskly. "After all, it's entirely your circus. Shall we stay here and—"
The narrow circus of my dungeon wall.
Use circus when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Circus means A traveling company of performers that may include acrobats, clowns, trained animals, and other novelty acts, that gives shows usually in a circular tent..
Common synonyms include carnival, genus circus.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The circus will be in town next week.
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