'Cirque' definitions:

Definition of 'cirque'

From: WordNet
noun
A steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain a lake [syn: cirque, corrie, cwm]

Definition of 'Cirque'

From: GCIDE
  • 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]