Results for circle

Definitions of circle:

part of speech: noun

A round body; a plane surface bounded by a single curved line called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the center; the closed plane curve bounding such a surface; a number of persons or things united by a common bond; something round, as a group of seats in a theater.

part of speech: verb transitive

To surround.

part of speech: noun

A figure contained by a single curved line called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it called the centre; a ring; any round body; the compass or circuit of anything or place; a sphere or station in society; a number of persons, as a circle of friends; a series ending where it begins.

part of speech: verb

To move round; to encompass; to surround or enclose; to keep together.

part of speech: verb intransitive

To move around; to revolve.

Usage examples for circle:

• The words did not please Mrs. Dare, who had then joined the circle "Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles", Mrs. Henry Wood

• So now we enter a circle in which we never moved before, and we are not of it. "The Mountain Girl", Payne Erskine

• She was within a circle of pleasure, he outside. "Castle Craneycrow", George Barr McCutcheon