A circular range of houses. Also, a traffic roundabout. Often in proper names as Oxford Circus, Regent Circus.
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| 释义 | society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > junction of roads, paths, or tracks > [noun] > types of road junction > roundabout (8) circus1898 A circular range of houses. Also, a traffic roundabout. Often in proper names as Oxford Circus, Regent Circus. rond-point1903 In a town or city: a circus or roundabout at which roads converge. Cf. roundabout, n. 8. rotonda1908 Philippine English. A roundabout or traffic circle. traffic circle1914 a junction of several roads consisting of a central (usually circular) island around which traffic moves in one direction; = rotary, n. 3. roundabout1926 Originally and chiefly British. A junction of several roads consisting of a central (usually circular) island around which traffic moves in one… rotary1940 North American. = roundabout, n. 8. gyratory1983 British. A road junction or traffic system requiring the circulatory movement of traffic, and which is larger or more complex than an ordinary… modern roundabout1987 a junction of several roads consisting of a central, usually circular island around which traffic moves in one direction; = roundabout, n. 8. |
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