Noun: circular
| Singular | circular |
| Plural | circulars |
Sample Sentences
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Near-synonym: flyer (advertisement)
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The pigeon-hole was also stuffed with circulars and hand-bills. [1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 40:]
Nouns inflected like circular
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English circuler, circuleer, circulere, from Old French circulier (French circulaire), from Late Latin circularis, from Latin circulus, diminutive of circus (“ring”). By surface analysis, circle + -ar. See: Middle English Nouns '
circuler', French Nouns '
circulaire', Latin Nouns '
circulus'.