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circlesnounpl. of circle something with a perfectly round circumferencea circle of columns surrounds the memorial to the fallen heroes cirques, rings, roundels, rounds circlets, ringletsellipses, loops, ovalsballs, globes, orbs, spheres a circular stripa decorative circle of silver on the rim of the commemorative plate for their 25th wedding anniversary bands, eyes, hoops, loops, rings, rounds belts, cinctures, collars, girdleswreathsannulets, beckets, coils, curls, furls, hanks, spirals, spires, twirls, whorls a group of people sharing a common interest and relating together sociallygot together with her social circle once a week bodies, bunches, clans, cliques, communities, coteries, covens, crowds, folds, galères, gangs, klatches(also klatsches), lots, networks, packs, rings, sets charmed circles, elites, in-groupsclosed shopsclubs, colleges, fellowships, guilds(also gilds), leagues, organizations, societiescamps, factions, sects, sides, tribesmesses, squadsbrotherhoods, fraternities, orders, sisterhoods, sodalities, sororitiescommunesalliances, blocs, coalitions, confederations, congresses, councils, federations, unions lonersindividualists a series of events or actions that repeat themselves regularly and in the same orderwith the birth of a child coming so soon after the death of a grandparent, we were once again reminded of the circle of life cycles, merry-go-rounds, rounds, wheels, zodiacs patterns, syndromescourses, developments, progressions, runsbeats, circuits, loops, ringsrevolutions, rotations, turnovers, turnschains, sequences, series, strings, successions, trains a region of activity, knowledge, or influencethat lies outside the circle of our investigation areas, arenas, bailiwicks, baronies, businesses, demesnes, departments, disciplines, domains, elements, fiefdoms, fiefs, fields, firmaments, fronts, games, kingdoms, lines, precincts, provinces, realms, specialties, spheres, terrains, walks frontiersstudies, subjectsterritories, turfs(also turves)occupations, professions, pursuits, rackets, vocationsambits, amplitudes, breadths, compasses, confines, dimensions, extents, kens, reaches, scopes, sweeps, widthssubfields, subspecialties(also sub-specialties) circlesverbpresent tense third-person singular of circleto form a circle aroundeveryone circled the lectern and waited their turn to read from the Bible compasses, embraces, encircles, encloses(also incloses), encompasses, environs, girdles, girds, rings, surrounds, wreathes circumscribes, closes in, cordons (off), fences (in), hems (in), wallsbesets, besieges, entrenches(also intrenches), invests, swarms to travel completely aroundwith a look of extreme frustration, the commander circled the new recruit circuits, circumnavigates, circumvents, compasses, encircles, girdles, orbits, rings, rounds circumambulates, crosses, perambulates, traverses |