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Circus vs Anticircus - What's the difference?

circus | anticircus |

As a proper noun circus

is .

As an adjective anticircus is

opposing circuses.

circus

English

(circus)

Noun

(es)
  • 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.
  • A round open space in a town or city where multiple streets meet.
    • Oxford Circus in London is at the north end of Regent Street.
  • (historical) In the ancient Roman Empire, a building for chariot racing.
  • (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.
  • * RAF Web - Air of Authority
    • ... the squadron (No. 452) moved to Kenley in July 1941 and took part in the usual round of Circus , Rhubarb and Ramrod missions.
  • (obsolete) Circuit; space; enclosure.
    • The narrow circus of my dungeon wall. — Byron.

    Derived terms

    * media circus * three-ring circus

    Coordinate terms

    * (open space) (l)

    Related terms

    * circular * circle

    References

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    anticircus

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Opposing circuses.
  • * 1974 , Edwin Hardin Sutherland, Donald Ray Cressey, Criminology
    • In some communities it was customary for ministers and priests to preach anticircus sermons in all churches on the Sunday preceding the circus.
  • * 1990 , Robert Bogdan, Freak show: presenting human oddities for amusement and profit
    • Not until 1933 were all anticircus laws, except those regarding towns' rights to license circuses, repealed in that state (Thayer 1981).
  • * 2005 , Kim Masters Evans, Animal rights
    • On its anticircus Web site, PETA lists hundreds of captive animal attacks it says have occurred since 1990. PETA claims that these rampages result from the animals' rebelling against years of abuse and deprivation.