cul-de-sac

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
“
As a part of County Road 3330 still will remain under county authority, the Commission discussed the need to build a turnaround, or cul-de-sac, at the end of the county-maintained section, so the traveling public will not be forced to trespass on private property should they need to turn around.

View all »
Definitions (11)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (3)

  1. noun A dead-end street.
  2. noun An impasse: "This was the cul-de-sac the year kept driving me toward: men and women would always be at odds” (Philip Weiss).
  3. noun Anatomy A saclike cavity or tube open only at one end.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (5)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (3)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • It is incumbent on those whom we have charged with the task of providing it that the nation doesn't follow a blind trade union leadership into the cul-de-sac of industrial chaos. —  Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • It is a long cul-de-sac, a terrace of brick houses on the edge of the city beyond the railway. —  Top stories from Times Online
  • Forensics officers were working at the house in a cul-de-sac yesterday. —  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • As a part of County Road 3330 still will remain under county authority, the Commission discussed the need to build a turnaround, or cul-de-sac, at the end of the county-maintained section, so the traveling public will not be forced to trespass on private property should they need to turn around. —  The Rolla Daily News Homepage RSS
  • Think of delivering the mail to a single box at the end of the cul-de-sac instead of at every doorstep. —  Freep.com - RSS
More examples »
 

Tags

cul-de-sac hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 122 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Add a related word »
Related

Roget's II Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Allen's Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Etymologies (2)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. French : cul, bottom (from Old French, from Latin cūlus; see culet) + de, of (from Old French, from Latin dē; see de-) + sac, sack (from Old French, from Latin saccus; see sack1).

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. French, literally the bottom of a bag: cul de (see cul-de-four); sac, from Latin saccus, sack, bag: see sack.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
/ˈkjuldəˈsæk/
by American Heritage

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word a few times a year.

Recently looked up

receiveth · worthlessness · strawberries · onshore · Yank

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

Glockenspiel · Ersatz · Blaukraut bleibt Blaukraut und Brautkleid bleibt Brautkleid · Haifischschwanzflossenfleischsuppe · Der Kottbusser Postkutscher putzt den Kottbusser Postkutschkasten