| Definitions | | cul-de-sac |
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noun (plural: cul-de-sacs or culs-de-sac)
- A blind alley or dead end street.
- : A circular area at the end of a dead end street to allow cars to turn around, designed so children can play on street, with little or no through-traffic.
- An impasse.
- quotations:
- "Physics seems, in fact, to have got itself into a , obsessing over theories so mathematically abstruse that nobody even knows how to test them." — National Review, February 14, 2005
- (medicine) A sacklike cavity or tube open at one end only.
Translations: - French: impasse
- German: Sackgasse
(trans-bottom)
(trans-top, medicine: a sacklike cavity or tube)
(trans-bottom)
Etymology: French for "bottom of the bag": cul < Latin culus ("bottom") + deFrench, de ("of") + sac < Latin saccus < Greek ("sack", "bag") < Hebrew (saq, "sack").
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