Cisatlantic
See also: cis-Atlantic and cisatlantic
English
WOTD – 15 February 2012
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sĭsătlănʹtĭk, IPA(key): /sɪsætˈlæntɪk/
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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.
- 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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