1 [onlybeforenoun] related to or happening in the regions around the North Pole:
Arctic explorers
compareANTARCTIC
2 (arctic) extremely cold:
TV pictures showed the arctic conditions.
noun [sing.] (the Arctic) the regions of the world around the North Pole
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