tropics

See also: Tropics

English

The tropics.

Noun

tropics

1. plural of tropic

Noun

the tropics pl (plural only)

1. (geography) 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.
   • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 165:

     The day was ending; night comes on very quickly in the tropics, and as yet there was no moon visible.

   • 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:

     ‘In the tropics one must before everything keep calm.’...He lifted a warning forefinger...‘Du calme, du calme.’

Synonyms

• tropical zone
• torrid zone

Related terms

• tropical

Translations

region of the Earth

• Catalan: tròpics m pl
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 熱帶／热带 (zh) (rèdài)

• Czech: tropy (cs) pl
• Danish: troperne c pl
• Finnish: tropiikki (fi)
• French: tropiques (fr) m pl
• German: Tropen (de) pl
• Hungarian: trópus (hu), forró égöv
• Ingrian: troopikat
• Irish: trópaicí f pl, teochrios m
• Japanese: 熱帯 (ja) (ねったい, nettai)
• Korean: 열대(熱帶) (ko) (yeoldae)
• Maori: wāhi pārūrū, takiwā pārū
• Navajo: deesdoigi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tropene pl

  Nynorsk: tropane pl

• Persian: مبدأها (mabd'hâ)
• Polish: tropiki m
• Portuguese: trópicos (pt) m pl
• Romanian: tropice n pl
• Russian: тро́пики (ru) m pl (trópiki)
• Spanish: trópicos (es)
• Swahili: tropiki
• Swedish: tropikerna (sv) c pl
• Tagalog: alindanga, kaaalindangaan, intanan
• Vietnamese: nhiệt đới (vi)
• Welsh: trofannau f pl