Cisatlantic

English

WOTD – 15 February 2012

Alternative forms

Etymology

cis- (on this side) + Atlantic

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sĭsătlănʹtĭk, IPA(key): /sɪsætˈlæntɪk/
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Adjective

Cisatlantic (not comparable)

  1. 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, volume I, page 47:
      This well directed liberality and the vigilance and ability of the Cisatlantic defenders of Christianity.
    • 1809, Oliver Oldschool, editor, The Port Folio, volume 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.

Antonyms

  • (antonym(s) of situated on the same side of the Atlantic Ocean): Transatlantic

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