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tropics

tropics is the plural of tropic.

Meaning of tropic

Noun

tropic (plural tropics)

  1. Either of the two parallels of latitude 23°26′ north and south of the equator; the farthest points at which the sun can be directly overhead; the boundaries of the torrid zone or tropics.
    • O conſider my caſe, moſt blisfull Queen, […] Diſpell thoſe Clouds which hover 'twixt my King and his higheſt Counſell, […] that my great Law-making Court be forced to turn no more to polemicall Committees, […] but that they may come again to the old Parliamentary Rode, To the path of their...1645, James Howell, “England’s Tears, for the Present Wars, which for the Nature of the Quarrel, the Quality of the Strength, the Diversity of Battels, Skirmishes, Encounters, and Sieges, (Happened...
  2. The component of tone or rhetoric in a sentence.

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Noun (1)

the tropics pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) The region of the Earth centred on the equator and lying between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn and characterized by a hot climate.
    • The day was ending; night comes on very quickly in the tropics, and as yet there was no moon visible.1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 165
    • ‘In the tropics one must before everything keep calm.’...He lifted a warning forefinger...‘Du calme, du calme.’1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 201

Noun (2) capitalized: Tropics

Tropics

  1. (plural) plural of Tropic

Synonyms of tropics

Words formed from tropics

Questions about tropics

What does tropics mean?
Tropics means the region of the Earth centred on the equator and lying between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn and characterized by a hot climate.
What is tropics the plural of?
Tropics is the plural of tropic.
What part of speech is tropics?
Tropics is a noun.

Words near tropics in the dictionary

  1. tropicbirds
  2. tropick
  3. tropicks
  4. tropicopolitan
  5. tropicopolitans
  6. tropics
  7. Tropicália
  8. tropidine
  9. tropidodiscid
  10. tropidodiscids
  11. tropidopheid

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