How to pronounce “cul-de-sac”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• 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.
• (figurative) An impasse.
• (medicine, botany) A sacklike cavity, a tube open at one end only.

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