Found 2 items, similar to cirque.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: cirque cirque n : a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain a lake [syn: corrie, cwm]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Cirque Cirque \Cirque\, n. [F., fr. L. circus.] [1913 Webster] 1. A circle; a circus; a circular erection or arrangement of objects. [1913 Webster] A dismal cirque Of Druid stones upon a forlorn moor. --Keats. [1913 Webster] 2. A kind of circular valley in the side of a mountain, walled around by precipices of great height. [1913 Webster]