Frigid Zone

American  

noun

1. either of two regions, one between the Arctic Circle and the North Pole, or one between the Antarctic Circle and the South Pole.

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Frigid Zone British  

noun

1. archaic the cold region inside the Arctic or Antarctic Circle where the sun's rays are very oblique

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Frigid Zone Scientific  

/ frĭj′ĭd /

1. Either of two regions of the Earth of extreme latitude, the North Frigid Zone, extending north of the Arctic Circle, or the South Frigid Zone, extending south of the Antarctic Circle.

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Etymology

Origin of Frigid Zone

First recorded in 1590–1600

Example Sentences

The whale, which lives in the ocean of the Frigid Zone, is also very useful.

From Where We Live A Home Geography by Jacobs, Emilie Van Beil

Here, then, the travellers entered the true Arctic region, the northern Frigid Zone.

From The Fur Country Seventy Degrees North Latitude by D'Anvers, N.

Notice on the drawing that we live in a zone between the very cold region, or Frigid Zone, and the very warm region, or Torrid Zone.

From Where We Live A Home Geography by Jacobs, Emilie Van Beil

It is here that the Eskimos live; but most of the North Frigid Zone and the South Frigid Zone is a stretch of frozen whiteness on all sides, with no living thing of any kind.

From Where We Live A Home Geography by Jacobs, Emilie Van Beil

North America stretches far up north into the North Frigid Zone and far south into the Torrid Zone, but most of it lies in the North Temperate Zone.

From Where We Live A Home Geography by Jacobs, Emilie Van Beil