Usually means: Entertainment featuring acrobats, animals, clowns.
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  1. circuses: Merriam-Webster
  2. circuses: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. circuses: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Circuses, circuses: Vocabulary.com
  5. Circuses, circuses: Wordnik
  6. circuses: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. circuses: Wiktionary
  8. Circuses, circuses: Dictionary.com
  9. circuses: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Circuses: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Circuses: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. Circuses: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. circuses: FreeDictionary.org
  14. Circuses: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Circuses: Encyclopedia

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  1. Circuses: Medical dictionary

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  1. Circuses: Idioms

(Note: See circus as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (circus)

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.
noun:  A round open space in a town or city where multiple streets meet.
noun:  (figurative) A spectacle; a noisy fuss; a chaotic and/or crowded place.
noun:  (historical) In the ancient Roman Empire, a building for chariot racing.
noun:  (military, World War II) A code name for bomber attacks with fighter escorts in the day time. The attacks were against short-range targets with the intention of occupying enemy fighters and keeping their fighter units in the area concerned.
noun:  (obsolete) Circuit; space; enclosure.
verb:  To take part in a circus; or to be displayed as if in a circus
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