English Dictionary

cul-de-sac

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈkʌldəsæk/

名詞

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.

日本語の意味

袋小路、行き止まりの通り / 行き止まりの通りの末端にある、車がUターンできるような円状の広場（交通量がほとんどなく、子供が安全に遊べるように設計された場所）

We parked at the end of the cul-de-sac and walked to the park.

私たちは行き止まりの道の突き当たりに車を停めて、公園まで歩きました。

意味（1）

A blind alley or dead end street.

Before we had gone fifty yards we perceived that all hopes of getting further up the stream in the whale-boat were at an end, for not two hundred yards above where we had stopped were a succession of shallows and mudbanks, with not six inches of water over them. It was a watery cul de sac.

意味（2）

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.

And in suburbs known for new development, preservationists are often battling a general perception that there is nothing historic or worth saving among the cul-de-sacs.

意味（3）

An impasse.

Physics seems, in fact, to have got itself into a cul-de-sac, obsessing over theories so mathematically abstruse that nobody even knows how to test them.

意味（4）

(medicine) A sack-like cavity, a tube open at one end only.

cul-de-sacs （ plural ）

culs-de-sac （ plural ）