antarctic
adjEtymology
From Middle English antartik, antartyk, from Middle French antartique, from Latin antarcticus, from Ancient Greek ἀνταρκτικός (antarktikós), from ἀντί (antí, “opposite”) + ἀρκτικός (arktikós, “Arctic”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic”). By surface analysis, anti- + Arctic.
- derived from ἀνταρκτικός
- derived from antarcticus
- derived from antartique
- inherited from antartik
Definitions
Alternative spelling of Antarctic.
Of, from, or pertaining to Antarctica and the south polar regions.
- We are likely to consider Antarctic English as an occupational variety of general English rather than a new regional variety, mainly because men go to work in the Antarctic for a period, intending to return. They are not settlers.
- Scientists have known for years that the Thwaites glacier is the soft underbelly of the Antarctic ice sheet, and first found that it was unstable decades ago.
Opposite, contradictory.
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Southern.
A continental region, one of the major ecozones of the world, covering the south polar…
A continental region, one of the major ecozones of the world, covering the south polar regions, especially those south of the Antarctic Convergence; or, in accordance with the Antarctic Treaty System, the 60th parallel south.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for antarctic. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA