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arcticwide

arcticwide adjective: throughout the arctic.

Adjective

arcticwide (not comparable)

  1. Throughout the arctic.
    • It would be well and good for these two nations and the other circumpolar nations to discuss ways and means of mounting an Arcticwide census of polar bears, on a regular and continuing basis.1965 April 1, U.S. Congress, Journals and Records of the 89th United States Congress
    • Their use of framed, skincovered boats, gutskin parkas, throwing boards, stone oil lamps, semisubterranean sod-roofed houses, and many other Eskimo features established them clearly to be part of that arcticwide cultural continuum.1988, William W.Fitzhugh, Crossroads of Continents: Cultures of Siberia and Alaska

Adverb

arcticwide (not comparable)

  1. Throughout the arctic.
    • Expeditionists searched arcticwide for the HMS Terror.

Forms of arcticwide

alternative formArctic-wide
alternative formArcticwide

Origin of arcticwide

arctic + -wide

Questions about arcticwide

What does arcticwide mean?
Arcticwide means throughout the arctic.
What part of speech is arcticwide?
Arcticwide can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near arcticwide in the dictionary

  1. arcticizes
  2. arcticizing
  3. arctics
  4. Arcticward
  5. Arcticwards
  6. arcticwide
  7. arctigenin
  8. arctiid
  9. arctiids
  10. arctiin
  11. arctiine

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