polygon

[pol-ee-gon] / ˈpɒl iˌgɒn /

NOUN

closed plane figure

Synonyms

STRONGEST

shape

STRONG

form

WEAK

decagon dodecagon hexagon octagon parallelogram pentagon quadrangle quadrilateral trapezoid triangle

Example Sentences

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We wander back wet, down to Castillo Square, down to the ghosts of Bar Milano, a stand-in for Bar Torino, and Café Suizo, where the fiesta unravels in insults, a love polygon and fisticuffs.

From Salon • Nov. 8, 2025

A love triangle stretches to encompass more people and form a shifting polygon.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

County officials correctly used the Genasys software to draw a polygon that would alert only residents near the fire, which sparked in West Hills.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2025

By 2021, the investigators had been able to shrink the polygon so that it covered only several hundred homes.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 20, 2023

The Pythagoreans were fascinated by the regular solids, symmetrical three-dimensional objects all of whose sides are the same regular polygon.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan