Word Meanings - ARCTIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to, or situated under, the northern constellation called the Bear; northern; frigid; as, the arctic pole, circle, region, ocean; an arctic expedition, night, temperature. Note: The arctic circle is a lesser circle, parallel

Additional info about word: ARCTIC

Pertaining to, or situated under, the northern constellation called the Bear; northern; frigid; as, the arctic pole, circle, region, ocean; an arctic expedition, night, temperature. Note: The arctic circle is a lesser circle, parallel to the equator, 23º 28' from the north pole. This and the antarctic circle are called the polar circles, and between these and the poles lie the frigid zones. See Zone. (more info) fr. Gr. ursus bear, Skr.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ARCTIC)

• Hibernal
• Wintry
• arctic
• brumal
• glacial

Related words: (words related to ARCTIC)

• GLACIALIST
  One who attributes the phenomena of the drift, in geology, to glaciers.
• BRUMAL
  Of or pertaining to winter. "The brumal solstice." Sir T. Browne.
• ARCTIC
  Pertaining to, or situated under, the northern constellation called the Bear; northern; frigid; as, the arctic pole, circle, region, ocean; an arctic expedition, night, temperature. Note: The arctic circle is a lesser circle, parallel
• GLACIAL
  Resembling ice; having the appearance and consistency of ice; - - said of certain solid compounds; as, glacial phosphoric or acetic acids. Glacial acid , an acid of such strength or purity as to crystallize at an ordinary temperature, in an icelike
• WINTRY
  Suitable to winter; resembling winter, or what belongs to winter; brumal; hyemal; cold; stormy; wintery. Touch our chilled hearts with vernal smile, Our wintry course do thou beguile. Keble.
• HIBERNAL
  Belonging or relating to winter; wintry; winterish. Sir T. Browne.
• HOLARCTIC
  Of or pert. to the arctic regions collectively; specif.
• POSTGLACIAL
  Formed or occurring after the last glacial epoch of the Pleistocene period, or at a locality within the area of Pleistocene glaciation after the final disappearance of the glacier from the locality. Of, pertaining to, or designating, an epoch after
• PREGLACIAL
  Prior to the glacial or drift period.
• NEARCTIC
  Of or pertaining to a region of the earth's surface including all of temperate and arctic North America and Greenland. In the geographical distribution of animals, this region is marked off as the habitat certain species.
• ANTARCTIC
  Opposite to the northern or arctic pole; relating to the southern pole or to the region near it, and applied especially to a circle, distant from the pole 23º 28min. Thus we say the antarctic pole, circle, ocean, region, current, etc.
• PALEARCTIC
  Belonging to a region of the earth's surface which includes all Europe to the Azores, Iceland, and all temperate Asia.
• PROCATARCTIC
  Beginning; predisposing; exciting; initial. Note: The words procatarctic causes have been used with different significations. Thus they have been employed synonymously with prime causes, exciting causes, and predisposing or remote causes.
• SUBARCTIC
  Approximately arctic; belonging to a region just without the arctic circle.
• SUBGLACIAL
  Pertaining or belonging to the under side of a glacier; being beneath a glacier; as, subglacial streams.