circus
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a travelling company of entertainers; including trained animals
he ran away from home to join the circus
Types & categories
- troupe hypernym
Sense 2 noun
a performance given by a traveling company of acrobats, clowns, and trained animals
the children always love to go to the circus
Types & categories
- show hypernym
- three-ring circus hyponym
Sense 3 noun
a frenetic disorganized (and often comic) disturbance suggestive of a large public entertainment
it was so funny it was a circus
Types & categories
- disturbance hypernym
Sense 4 noun
(antiquity) an open-air stadium for chariot races and gladiatorial games
Types & categories
- stadium hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 5 noun
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
Types & categories
- scene of action hypernym
Parts & wholes
- circus tent part meronym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | troupe |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | show |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | three-ring circus |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | disturbance |
| 4 | domain region | Related & opposite | Rome |
| 4 | domain topic | Related & opposite | antiquity |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | stadium |
| 5 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | circus tent |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | scene of action |