Cisatlantic
See also: cis-Atlantic and cisatlantic
English
WOTD – 15 February 2012
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sĭsătlănʹtĭk, IPA(key): /sɪsætˈlæntɪk/
Adjective
Cisatlantic (not comparable)
- Situated on the same side of the Atlantic Ocean.
- 1798, Thomas De Witt Talmage, Around the Tea-Table, page 190
- Society to-day, trans-Atlantic and cis-Atlantic, very much needs more royal marriages.
- 1805, The Literary Miscellany I, page 47
- This well directed liberality and the vigilance and ability of the Cisatlantic defenders of Christianity.
- 1809, Oliver Oldschool [ed.], The Port Folio III, page 46
- I was much struck with a communication, which, in lack of perspicuity as well as pomp of language it would puzzle our cisatlantic writers to exceed.
- 1798, Thomas De Witt Talmage, Around the Tea-Table, page 190
Antonyms
- (situated on the same side of the Atlantic Ocean): Transatlantic
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