line of latitude

Questions about line of latitude

What does line of latitude mean?

line of latitude means "an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator".

What is another word for line of latitude?

Close synonyms include latitude, parallel of latitude, parallel. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is line of latitude a common word?

line of latitude is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.