CIRQUE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain a lake

Synonyms:

cirque; corrie; cwm

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("cirque" is a kind of...):

basin (a natural depression in the surface of the land often with a lake at the bottom of it)

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