Usually means: Cold region around the North Pole.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word arctic:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. arctic, the Arctic: Merriam-Webster
  2. Arctic, arctic, the Arctic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Arctic, arctic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. arctic, the Arctic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Arctic, arctic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Arctic, arctic: Wordnik
  7. Arctic, arctic, the Arctic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Arctic, arctic: Wiktionary
  9. arctic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. arctic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. arctic: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Arctic, the Arctic: Dictionary.com
  13. Arctic: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. arctic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Arctic (company), Arctic (disambiguation), Arctic (film), Arctic (journal), Arctic, The Arctic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Arctic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. arctic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. arctic: Rhymezone
  19. Arctic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. arctic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. arctic: FreeDictionary.org
  22. arctic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Arctic: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. Arctic: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. arctic: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  26. arctic: Merriam-Webster

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Arctic: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. The Arctic, arctic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ARCTIC: Acronym Finder

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. arctic: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. arctic: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  2. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See arctically as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (astronomy, now only in compounds) Pertaining to the celestial north pole, or to the pole star.
adjective:  (geography) Pertaining to the northern polar region of the planet, characterised by extreme cold and an icy landscape.
adjective:  Extremely cold, snowy, or having other properties of extreme winter associated with the Arctic.
adjective:  Designed for use in very cold conditions.
noun:  (obsolete) The north celestial pole.
noun:  (geography) The region of the Earth above the Arctic Circle, containing the North Pole.
noun:  (US, now chiefly historical) A warm waterproof overshoe.
noun:  Any of various butterflies of the genus Oeneis.
adjective:  Alternative letter-case form of Arctic [(astronomy, now only in compounds) Pertaining to the celestial north pole, or to the pole star.]
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of Arctic [(obsolete) The north celestial pole.]

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