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tract

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"Stretch of land"

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5 lettersPronunciation /tɹækt/Part of speech nounSorted acrttStarts with TEnds with T1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a bundle of myelinated nerve fibers following a path through the brain

Word origin

From Middle English tract, tracte, traht (“a treatise, exposition, commentary”), from Old English traht, tract (“a treatise, exposition, commentary, text, passage”); and also from Middle English tract, tracte (“an expanse of space or time”); both from Latin tractus (“a haul, drawing, a drawing out”), the perfect passive participle of trahō. Doublet of trait.

Used in a sentence

  • an unexplored tract of sea
  • the deep tract of hell
  • a very high mountain joined to the mainland by a narrow tract of earth

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