cirque – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
cirque
n.
corrie, cwm, semicircular bowl-shaped hole with steep walls inside a hill or a mountain formed by glacial erosion (Geology); circle; circus (Archaic from French)
Cirque
A
cirque (French, from the Latin word
circus) is an
amphitheatre-like
valley formed by
glacial erosion. Alternative names for this landform are
corrie (from
Scottish Gaelic coire meaning a pot or
cauldron) and
cwm (
Welsh for "valley", pronounced
coom). A cirque may also be a similarly shaped landform arising from fluvial erosion.
cirque
Noun
1. a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain a lake
(synonym) corrie, cwm
(hypernym) basin
cirque
nm.
circus; amphitheatre; bedlam, chaos (Informal)
cirque
n.
kar; ledovcový kotel
