ARCTIC ZONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Arctic Zone mean? 

• ARCTIC ZONE (noun)
  The noun ARCTIC ZONE has 1 sense:

1. the regions to the north of the Arctic Circle centered on the North Pole

  Familiarity information: ARCTIC ZONE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARCTIC ZONE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The regions to the north of the Arctic Circle centered on the North Pole

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Arctic; Arctic Zone; North Frigid Zone

Instance hypernyms:

Frigid Zone; polar region; polar zone (the part of the Earth's surface forming a cap over a pole; characterized by frigid climate)

 Context examples 

They were those which treat of the haunts of sea-fowl; of the solitary rocks and promontories by them only inhabited; of the coast of Norway, studded with isles from its southern extremity, the Lindeness, or Naze, to the North Cape—Nor could I pass unnoticed the suggestion of the bleak shores of Lapland, Siberia, Spitzbergen, Nova Zembla, Iceland, Greenland, with the vast sweep of the Arctic Zone, and those forlorn regions of dreary space,—that reservoir of frost and snow, where firm fields of ice, the accumulation of centuries of winters, glazed in Alpine heights above heights, surround the pole, and concentre the multiplied rigours of extreme cold.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)