cul-de-sac
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
cul-de-sac (plural cul-de-sacs)
- 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 the street, with little or no through-traffic.
- An impasse.
- (medicine) A sack-like cavity, a tube open at one end only.
- French: bout de cul-de-sac résidentiel
- German: Wendeplatte, Wendekreis, Wendehammer
- Portuguese: cul-de-sac
- Russian: тупик
- German: Tasche
- Russian: слепо́й мешо́к
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