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6 letters · 17 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain a lake
originBorrowed from French cirque (“circular arena; cirque”), from Latin circus (“circle, ring”), from Ancient Greek κίρκος (kírkos, “circle, ring; racecourse, circus”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to bend; to turn”). Doublet of circus.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0