Alternative letter-case form of Arctic.
Pertaining to the celestial north pole, or to the pole star.
The north celestial pole.
A continental region consisting of the portion of the Earth north of the Arctic Circle, containing the North Pole.
I’ve visited the world from arctic to ecliptic, as a surgeon does a hospital, and find all men sick of some distemper […]
From Middle French artique (with -c- reintroduced after Latin in the 17th century), from Latin arcticus, from Ancient Greek ἀρκτικός (arktikós, “northern, of the (Great) Bear”), from ἄρκτος (árktos, “...
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