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tropics en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

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.
   • ‘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:
   • How can one explain to someone who hasn't lived close to the secret heart of the tropics, at the mercy of their anger and stealth and poison; who hasn't experienced the mystery of the drums, seen the quick workings of magic and the mortal dread it inspires? 1954, Ian Fleming, “Allumeuse”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 108:
   • 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:
2. (form-of, plural) plural of tropic
   form of tropic

Forms

Deriveds

paleotropics · neotropics · boreotropics · palaeotropics · extratropics

Relateds

tropical · orthotropics

Synonyms

torrid zone · tropical zone

Translations (36)

hi उष्णकटिबन्ध (region of the Earth) · ca tròpics (region of the Earth) · tl alindanga (region of the Earth) · fr tropiques (region of the Earth) · ja 熱帯 (region of the Earth) · vi nhiệt đới (region of the Earth) · ro tropice (region of the Earth) · id tropika (region of the Earth) · mi wāhi pārūrū (region of the Earth) · hu trópus (region of the Earth) · tl intanan (region of the Earth) · ru тро́пики (region of the Earth) · fa مبدأها (region of the Earth) · da troperne (region of the Earth) · izh troopikat (region of the Earth) · pl tropik (region of the Earth) · tl kaaalindangaan (region of the Earth) · fi tropiikki (region of the Earth) · sw tropiki (region of the Earth) · nb tropene (region of the Earth) · cs tropy (region of the Earth) · de Tropen (region of the Earth) · sv tropikerna (region of the Earth) · mr उष्ण कटिबंध (region of the Earth) · es trópicos (region of the Earth) · pt trópicos (region of the Earth) · mi takiwā pārū (region of the Earth) · ga trópaicí (region of the Earth) · hu forró égöv (region of the Earth) · nv deesdoigi (region of the Earth) · nn tropane (region of the Earth) · cmn 熱帶 /热带 (region of the Earth) · ga teochrios (region of the Earth) · id daerah khatulistiwa (region of the Earth) · cy trofannau (region of the Earth) · ko 열대 (region of the Earth)