Frigid Zone

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.

Frigid Zone

noun

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

Frigid Zone

/ 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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Frigid Zone¹

First recorded in 1590–1600

Example Sentences

Were you to visit the North or the South, the East or the West, the sunny fountains of Africa, the coral strands of India, or the icy regions of the frigid zone, yet in no part of the wide world could you discover objects so grand and majestic as our Giant’s Causeway; while Killarney is unrivalled for p. 6sublime and beautiful scenery.” 

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The frigid zone, in Asia, is much wider than it is in Europe; and that continent hardly knows a temperate zone.”

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In fact, notwithstanding the severity of the climate, the licentiousness of the inhabitants cannot be exceeded by any of the Eastern nations, whose luxurious manner of life, and genial clime, seem more adapted to excite extraordinary passions, than the severe cold of the frigid Zone.

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Would it not be natural to suppose the custom of bathing, including its religious use, to have originated in some quarter of the torrid regions of the earth than to speak of it as initiated in the frigid zone?

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The same as the south frigid zone.

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