English Explanatory Dictionary

Sotadic Zone

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A region of the world, approximately defined as a strip of Afroeurasia from the Mediterranean region eastward as well as the entirety of the Americas, in which male homosexuality was supposed to be societally prevalent.

Word forms

Sotadic Zone the Sotadic Zone

Etymology

Coined by British explorer, army officer, writer and scholar Richard Francis Burton in 1886.

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