Word.ws English Dictionary

pole arctic

pole arctic noun: the pole star.

Noun

pole arctic

  1. (obsolete) The pole star.
    • Whan Luna, full of mutabylyte,
      As Emperes the dyademe hath worne
      Of our pole artyke […]1499, John Skelton, The Bowge of Court
    • Now Phoebus ascends to the utmost limits of the Zodiac towards the Pole Arctic.1750, William Ellis, The Modern Husbandman, IV.1

Origin of pole arctic

From pole + arctic, after Middle French pôle arctique, Late Latin polus arcticus.

Questions about pole arctic

What does pole arctic mean?
Pole arctic means the pole star.
What part of speech is pole arctic?
Pole arctic is a noun.

Words near pole arctic in the dictionary

  1. polderizing
  2. polders
  3. poldervaartite
  4. poldine
  5. pole
  6. pole arctic
  7. pole barn
  8. pole barns
  9. pole bean
  10. pole beans
  11. pole building

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pole arctic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “pole arctic.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pole_arctic. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.