Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person who is in charge of the performances in a circus ring.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who has charge of the performances in a circus-ring.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One in charge of the performances (as of horses) within the ring in a circus.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The person who
manages theperformers in acircus ring .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the person in charge of performances in a circus ring
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Examples
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Come to think of it, as I recall the last time I managed to leave town without husband, kids, pets or job, pandemonium broke out under the Big Top and the ringmaster was there too.
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Come to think of it, as I recall the last time I managed to leave town without husband, kids, pets or job, pandemonium broke out under the Big Top and the ringmaster was there too.
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Come to think of it, as I recall the last time I managed to leave town without husband, kids, pets or job, pandemonium broke out under the Big Top and the ringmaster was there too.
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Immediately following the closing, the managing director of the circus (he also functioned as what in America would be called a ringmaster) assembled all performers.
Villa Incognito Robbins, Tom 2003
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"All ready!" called the ringmaster, holding his revolver high in the air again.
The Bobbsey Twins in the Country Laura Lee Hope
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But Mr. Zorthian became best known as ringmaster of the daily news briefings, which pitted a newly aggressive press corps against a long tradition of secrecy and optimism in official discussion of battles.
NYT > Home Page By DOUGLAS MARTIN 2011
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But Mr. Zorthian became best known as ringmaster of the daily news briefings, which pitted a newly aggressive press corps against a long tradition of secrecy and optimism in official discussion of battles.
NYT > Home Page By DOUGLAS MARTIN 2011
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The wife of the ringmaster is a retired teacher and administers homeschooling courses to performers 'children in makeshift classrooms at each circus site, Hamid said.
Times Leader News 2010
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The wife of the ringmaster is a retired teacher and administers homeschooling courses to performers 'children in makeshift classrooms at each circus site, Hamid said.
Times Leader News 2010
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Then, after a decade in public office and a failed bid for governor, Springer left electoral politics in 1982 for a TV career that eventually reinvented him as the self-described "ringmaster" of his raucous hit show.
Senator Springer? 2008
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