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# arctic

adjective; proper noun (the Arctic)

«arctic» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. The Arctic is the very cold area around the North Pole, including the Arctic Ocean and the northern parts of Canada, Alaska (USA), Greenland, Norway, Russia and other lands. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arctic/#m1)
2. Arctic (adjective) means from or about the Arctic. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arctic/#m2)
3. Arctic (informal) means extremely cold. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arctic/#m3)

### In the lessons

In geography and science, the Arctic is mostly a frozen ocean covered with sea ice, with long dark winters and summer days when the sun never sets. Animals: polar bears, Arctic foxes, walruses, seals, reindeer (caribou), Arctic terns. Inuit and other peoples live there. Climate change is melting Arctic ice. The Arctic Circle is an imaginary line around it. Phrases: the Arctic Ocean, Arctic Circle, Arctic fox, arctic weather.

### Examples

- Polar bears live in the Arctic. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arctic/#x1)
- The Arctic Ocean is covered in ice for much of the year. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arctic/#x2)
- The Arctic fox turns white in winter. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arctic/#x3)
- Some Arctic summer days have sunlight at midnight. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arctic/#x4)
- It's arctic outside — wear your coat! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arctic/#x5)
- The Arctic tern flies from the Arctic to the Antarctic. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arctic/#x6)
- For they saw at once that it was the great white Arctic moth. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arctic/#x7)

### Note

Pronounced "ARK-tic" — remember the first c. Capital A for the place: the Arctic. The Arctic is in the north; the Antarctic (Antarctica) is in the south. Penguins live in the south, not in the Arctic; polar bears live in the north.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «arctic» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/arctic/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«arctic» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/arctic.html) on Mova free.