Usually means: Steep, bowl-shaped mountain hollow.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word cirque:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. cirque: Merriam-Webster
  2. cirque: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cirque: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cirque: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cirque: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cirque, cirque: Wordnik
  7. cirque: Wiktionary
  8. cirque: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. cirque: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. cirque: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. cirque: Dictionary.com
  12. Cirque (album), Cirque (landform), Cirque: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Cirque: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. cirque: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. cirque: Rhymezone
  16. Cirque, cirque (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. cirque: FreeDictionary.org
  18. cirque: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. cirque: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cirque (landform), cirque: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. CIRQUE: Acronym Finder
  2. cirque: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cirque: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cirque)

▸ noun:  (historical) A Roman circus.
▸ noun:  (geology) A curved depression or natural amphitheatre, especially one in a mountainside at the end of a valley.
▸ noun:  (dated or literary) Something in the shape of a circle or ring.

Similar:
cwm, corrie, circ, circus, circus ring, combe, circusiana, circus act, meta, contemporary circus, more...

Opposite:
plain, valley, plateau

Types:
cirque du soleil, cirque de soleil, cirque d soleil, cirque du solei, more...

Phrases:
cirque glacier, glacial cirque, cirque lake, Cirque du Soleil, Cirque du Freak, more...

Adjectives:
glacial, large, small, great, deep, upper, high, huge, vast, rocky, alpine

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Similar:
cwm, corrie, circ, circus, circus ring, combe, circusiana, circus act, meta, contemporary circus, more...

Opposite:
plain, valley, plateau

Types:
cirque du soleil, cirque de soleil, cirque d soleil, cirque du solei, more...

Phrases:
cirque glacier, glacial cirque, cirque lake, Cirque du Soleil, Cirque du Freak, Cirque d'hiver, Le Cirque, Cirque du Soleil discography, Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando, Cirque of the Towers, more...

Adjectives:
glacial, large, small, great, deep, upper, high, huge, vast, rocky, alpine

Colors:
    crimson,     sapphire,     emerald,     amethyst,     gold, more...



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