cirque Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain a lake
    cwm; corrie.

WordNet

Cirque noun
Etymology
F., fr. L. circus.
Definitions
  1. A circle; a circus; a circular erection or arrangement of objects.
    A dismal cirque Of Druid stones upon a forlorn moor. Keats.
  2. A kind of circular valley in the side of a mountain, walled around by precipices of great height.

Webster 1913