POLAR CIRCLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does polar circle mean? 

• POLAR CIRCLE (noun)
  The noun POLAR CIRCLE has 1 sense:

1. a line of latitude at the north or south poles

  Familiarity information: POLAR CIRCLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POLAR CIRCLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A line of latitude at the north or south poles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("polar circle" is a kind of...):

latitude; line of latitude; parallel; parallel of latitude (an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator)

Instance hyponyms:

Antarctic Circle (a line of latitude north of the south pole)

Arctic Circle (a line of latitude near but to the south of the north pole; it marks the northernmost point at which the sun is visible on the northern winter solstice and the southernmost point at which the midnight sun can be seen on the northern summer solstice)