tropics

See also: Tropics

English

Noun

tropics

1. plural of tropic

Noun

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.
   • 1899 Feb, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 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

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 熱帶 (zh), 热带 (zh) (rèdài)

• Czech: tropy (cs) pl
• Danish: troperne c pl
• Finnish: tropiikki (fi)
• French: tropiques (fr) m pl
• German: Tropen (de) pl
• Irish: trópaicí f pl, teochrios m
• Japanese: 熱帯 (ja) (ねったい, nettai)
• Maori: wāhi pārūrū, takiwā pārū
• Navajo: deesdoigi

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tropene pl

  Nynorsk: tropane pl

• Persian: مبدأها‎ (mabd'hā)
• Polish: tropiki m
• Portuguese: trópicos (pt) m pl
• Romanian: tropice n pl
• Russian: тро́пики (ru) m pl (trópiki)
• Spanish: trópicos (es)
• Tagalog: alindanga, kaaalindangaan, intanan
• Vietnamese: nhiệt đới (vi)