subcircle
subcircle noun: a lesser circle.
Noun
subcircle (plural subcircles)
- A lesser circle.
- If the building hadn’t been reduced to a pile of rubble, he’d have been there on Sunday, too, for what he called family night: a small dinner with a subcircle of the regulars, often potluck. Mr. Shuff would bring his “auntie’s red rice”; the super and his wife from a building next to Fubar would...2008 March 17, Susan Dominus, “Near Rubble, Regulars Miss Regular Bar”, in New York Times
Forms of subcircle
| plural | subcircles |
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Origin of subcircle
From sub- + circle.
Questions about subcircle
- What does subcircle mean?
- Subcircle means a lesser circle.
- What part of speech is subcircle?
- Subcircle is a noun.
- What is the plural of subcircle?
- The plural of subcircle is subcircles.
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