Cirque

Quick meaning: Cirque is a noun meaning (geology) A curved depression or natural amphitheatre, especially one in a mountainside at the end of a valley.

Meaning

(geology) A curved depression or natural amphitheatre, especially one in a mountainside at the end of a valley.

More Meanings

1. (historical) A Roman circus.
2. (dated or literary) Something in the shape of a circle or ring.

Example Sentences

Only a few lichens and mosses colonize the rocky walls of cirques and nunataks.

When the soldiers were not lost among tattered skeins of fog, they could see far out into the cirque, as if it were a bay of black water.

Whose savage trample thus could pad the dank / Soil to a plash? toads in a poisoned tank, / Or wild cats in a red-hot iron cage— / The fight must so have seemed in that fell cirque.

Nero exhibited theſe Spectacles in his own Gardens, impiouſly joining to them the Diverſions of the Cirque, and appearing himſelf publicly in the Habit of a Charioteer, ſitting in his Chariot[…].

Word Forms

• cirques

Synonyms for cirque

Depending on context, synonyms include corrie, combe, cwm, circle, ring.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cwm, corrie, headwall, crap, duck, madhouse.

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