Term: circus: a performance given by a traveling company of acrobats, clowns, and trained animals
Candidate hypernym: entity: that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving) → 1
Candidate hypernym: addressee: one to whom something is addressed → 0
Candidate hypernym: roadkill: the dead body of an animal that has been killed on a road by a vehicle → 0
Candidate hypernym: stock buyback: a corporation's purchase of its own outstanding stock; increases earnings/share so stock price rises (which can discourage a takeover attempt) → 0
Candidate hypernym: battleship: large and heavily armoured warship → 0
Candidate hypernym: need: a condition requiring relief → 0
Candidate hypernym: confession: a written document acknowledging an offense and signed by the guilty party → 0
Candidate hypernym: security intelligence review committee: an agency of the Canadian government that oversees the activities of the Criminal Intelligence Services of Canada and has the power to intrude on the privacy of suspected terrorists or spies → 0
Candidate hypernym: concurrence: the temporal property of two things happening at the same time → 0
Candidate hypernym: salter: someone who uses salt to preserve meat or fish or other foods → 0
Candidate hypernym: effluvium: a foul-smelling outflow or vapor (especially a gaseous waste) → 0