Atlanticadj.n.

/atˈlantɪk/

Forms: Also (Middle English athlant), 1600s athlanticke, atlanticke, 1600s–1700s atlantick.

Etymology: < Latin Atlanticus, < Greek Ἀτλαντικός , < Ἀτλαντ- : see Atlas n.¹ and -ic suffix.

A. adj.

a. Of or pertaining to Mount Atlas in Libya, on which the heavens were fabled to rest. Hence applied to the sea near the western shore of Africa, and afterwards extended to the whole ocean lying between Europe and Africa on the east and America on the west.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > specific seas > [adjective] > Atlantic Ocean

Atlantic1601

mid-Atlantic1874

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 51 This river [Guadiana]..falleth into the Spanish Atlantick Ocean.

1626 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. (ed. 2) Athlanticke Sea, is the Mediterranean, or a part thereof.

1732 T. Lediard tr. J. Terrasson Life Sethos II. 4 The Phœnicians..pass'd..into the Hesperian or Atlantick ocean.

1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 178 The southern part of the Atlantic basin.

b. figurative. Far-reaching, distant; transferred in U.S.: Eastern.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > distance > [adjective] > far-reaching

longimanous1646

Atlantic1650

long-range1809

far-reaching1824

the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [adjective]

sideOE

fara1000

ferrenc1160

lungeteync1330

on dreicha1400

yondera1413

widec1425

roomc1443

lontaignec1450

remote1533

distant1549

remotedc1580

disloigned1596

discoasted1598

dissite1600

far-off1600

aloof1608

longinque1614

distantial1648

Atlantic1790

far-distant1793

far-away1816

far-apart1865

way off1871

1650 H. More Observ. in Enthusiasmus Triumphatus (1656) 112 Which no man were able to smell out, unlesse his nose were as Atlantick as your rauming and reaching fancy.

1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 349 Mr. Bailly will sooner thaw the eternal ice of his atlantic regions, than restore the central heat to Paris.

1808 M. L. Weems Life G. Washington (ed. 6) xi. 149 Northern and Southern—Atlantic and Western.

c. Of or pertaining to countries bordering on the Atlantic Ocean, in recent times esp. with reference to the political alliances of these countries.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > named regions of earth > groups of countries > [adjective] > bordering Atlantic

Atlantic1776

society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > international agreements > [adjective] > relating to alliance > relating to specific alliance

European1714

Atlantic1931

Atlanticist1957

Monrovia1961

1776 H. Walpole Let. 17 Apr. (1904) IX. 349 I now submit to recall my thoughts to America... The army that was to overrun the Atlantic continent, is not half set out yet.

1931 H. G. Wells Work, Wealth & Happiness Mankind (1932) viii. 305 We of the Atlantic world are too disposed to be ungrateful to the vast experiments Communism has made.

1944 W. Lippmann U.S. War Aims 80 In addition to the United States, the United Kingdom, and France..the Atlantic Community includes..[the South American countries],..Australia, Belgium,..Canada, [etc.].

1960 C. Fitz Gibbon When Kissing had to Stop xii. 220 She [sc. Britain] could become..the junior partner of an omnipotent Atlantic bloc.

1961 Listener 5 Oct. 493/1 Granted that Americans are not interested in Atlantic union, the emotional value to them of European union is enormous.

d. Crossing the Atlantic Ocean.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > specific seas > [adjective] > Atlantic Ocean > passing or extending across

transatlantic1779

Atlantic1839

1839 Southern Literary Messenger 5 5/2 The packet owners have carried the Atlantic mail..for twenty years.

1858 Harper's Mag. Oct. 700/2 We had learned articles proving that the Atlantic cable could never succeed under the existing conditions.

1898 R. Kipling Day's Work 159 Her crew signed and signed again with the regularity of Atlantic liner boatswains.

†2. = Atlantean adj. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > bodily constitution > bodily strength > [adjective] > relating to or having supporting strength

Atlantic1631

Atlantean1667

the world > space > relative position > support > [adjective] > supporting > like Atlas

Atlantic1631

Atlantean1667

1631 R. Brathwait Cater-character iii. 20 in Whimzies His Atlanticke shoulders are his supporters.

1652 L. S. Natures Dowrie vi. 11 Neither can one man..be so Atlantick, as to bear upon his shoulders the government of the Universe.

†3. Of the nature or size of an atlas; atlas-like.

ΚΠ

1768 S. Johnson in Boswell Life Johnson (1831) II. 539 The maps..fill two Atlantic folios.

4. Applied by Blytt to one of the successive periods of vegetation in Scandinavia after the glacial period, and later by others to the climate of other areas.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > by habitat or distribution > [adjective] > characteristic of particular region or period

southerneOE

African1578

Asiatic1670

American1678

Creole1758

Californian1785

subalpine1808

Antarctic1835

Adelaidean1847

Arctic1876

Atlantic1876

gerontogeous1880

Cenomanian1902

Lusitanian1907

pantropic1911

pantropical1913

native1920

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > age or period > [adjective] > quaternary > glacial or boreal

preglacial1855

boreal1876

sub-Atlantic1876

sub-boreal1876

Preboreal1924

Atlantic1935

the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > [adjective] > of or relating to climate > in the geological past > specific

genial1838

pluvial1868

boreal1876

sub-Atlantic1876

sub-boreal1876

interpluvial1907

intrapluvial1934

Atlantic1935

hypsithermal1957

1876 A. Blytt Immigr. Norwegian Flora 67 We must presume that the arctic flora was here before all the others; that the subarctic came next; that the subboreal and the subatlantic..came later than the boreal and the atlantic.

1935 Discovery July 198/1 The following climatic phase of the Postglacial period, the ‘Atlantic Period’, was considerably damper than the Boreal.

1959 J. D. Clark Prehist. Southern Afr. vii. 169 The Makalian Wet Phase probably equates in time with the warm Atlantic stage in Northern Europe, between c. 5,500 b.c. and c. 2,500 b.c.

1960 B. W. Sparks Geomorphol. ix. 216 Godwin has distinguished the following phases in the development of the Fens... The pre-Boreal period..approximately 8300 to 7600 b.c...The Boreal period. From about 7600 to 5500 b.c... The Atlantic period. The period 5500 to 3000 b.c. was one of increasing dampness and of extensive peat formation.

1964 G. Manley in Watson & Sissons Brit. Isles: Syst. Geogr. 162 This event [sc. the breaking of the last land bridge between Britain and the continent] is commonly associated with the onset of ‘Full-Atlantic’ conditions, notably the mild winters that resulted from the broadening of the North and Irish Seas.

B. n.

The Atlantic ocean; also figurative. [For the 14th cent. athlante, compare French atlante, Atlas, also inhabitant of the mythic Atlantis (an island placed by the Greeks in the far West).]

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > specific seas > [noun] > Atlantic Ocean

Atlantica1387

Western Ocean1576

pond1612

Great Lake1684

mid-Atlantic1804

millpond1813

Middle Atlantic1826

puddle1869

whale-poola1876

the world > matter > liquid > water > [noun] > body or mass

Atlantica1711

slew1915

the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [noun] > vast extent > that which is

latitude?a1475

sea1585

ocean1590

vasture1596

vast1604

vastity1652

vastness1674

immense1791

breadths1839

vastitude1841

Atlantic1865

wide1916

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. Rolls Ser. 53 Þe see of occean of athlant [L. oceanus Atlanticus].

a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo in Wks. (1721) III. 331 Down on the Earth it in Atlanticks rain'd.

1865 D. Masson Recent Brit. Philos. iv. 388 ‘Feelings’ or ‘phænomena of feeling’ is an indiscriminate Atlantic of a phrase.

Compounds

Atlantic Alliance n. = Atlantic Pact n.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > international agreements > [noun] > alliance or confederacy > an alliance > specific alliances

auld alliance1566

the League1589

armed neutrality1780

German Confederation1786

Germanic Confederation1815

Holy Alliance1823

the Concert of Europe1841

Sonderbund1847

Triplice1896

Soviet block1919

communist bloc1922

Eastern bloc1922

Soviet bloc1924

axis1936

Rome–Berlin Axis1936

Eastern block1938

communist block1941

Western European Union1944

Arab League1945

Western Union1948

Atlantic Pact1949

NATO1949

North Atlantic Treaty Organization1949

Seato1954

W.E.U.1954

Warsaw Pact1955

Atlantic Alliance1958

ASEAN1967

G201972

1958 New Statesman 15 Feb. 185/3 Does the Atlantic alliance come first—or the principles it is pledged to uphold?

Atlantic Charter n. a declaration of eight common principles in international relations, drawn up by the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt, on behalf of the British Empire and the U.S.A., at their meeting in the Western Atlantic in August 1941.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > international agreements > [noun] > alliance or confederacy > document embodying > specific

Atlantic Charter1941

1941 Hutchinson's Pict. Hist. War 9 July–30 Sept. 150/1 The President of the United States and the British representative in what is aptly called the Atlantic Charter, have jointly pledged their countries to the final destruction of the Nazi tyranny.

1958 New Statesman 1 Feb. 130/3 The verbal flaying of the clumsy, the ruthless persecution of the unfortunate—these have more in common with Buchenwald than with the Atlantic Charter.

Atlantic Pact n. an agreement made in 1949 to ensure the defence of countries with seaboards on the North Atlantic (cf. N.A.T.O.).

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > international agreements > [noun] > alliance or confederacy > an alliance > specific alliances

auld alliance1566

the League1589

armed neutrality1780

German Confederation1786

Germanic Confederation1815

Holy Alliance1823

the Concert of Europe1841

Sonderbund1847

Triplice1896

Soviet block1919

communist bloc1922

Eastern bloc1922

Soviet bloc1924

axis1936

Rome–Berlin Axis1936

Eastern block1938

communist block1941

Western European Union1944

Arab League1945

Western Union1948

Atlantic Pact1949

NATO1949

North Atlantic Treaty Organization1949

Seato1954

W.E.U.1954

Warsaw Pact1955

Atlantic Alliance1958

ASEAN1967

G201972

1949 Times 19 Mar. 5/2 The Atlantic Pact is much more than an American guarantee of Europe..it is a cooperative venture which will call for equal efforts.

Atlantic States n. those of the United States situated on the Atlantic coast.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [noun] > United States > Atlantic states

East Coasta1382

Atlantic States1789

1789 Deb. Congr. U.S. (1834) I. 153 The policy of taxing the navigation of the Atlantic States for the purpose of encouraging their agriculture.

1832 J. P. Kennedy Swallow Barn II. xiv. 233 Old Nick..is falling into the sere and yellow leaf, especially in the Atlantic states.

1961 H. Kurath & R. I. McDavid (title) The Pronunciation of English in the Atlantic States.

Atlantic Wall n. the line of fortifications constructed by the Germans to defend the Atlantic coast of Europe in the war of 1939–45.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > [noun] > series of fortifications > specific series

Hindenburg Line1917

Siegfried Line1917

Maginot Line1936

Siegfried Line1938

Mannerheim Line1939

Atlantic Wall1944

1944 Hutchinson's Pict. Hist. War 12 Apr.–26 Sept. 189/1 The first ramparts of Hitler's so-called Atlantic Wall were breached.

Draft additions June 2008

Atlantic halibut n. a halibut found in the Atlantic; spec. Hippoglossus hippoglossus, which is found in temperate waters of the North Atlantic and can grow to an exceptionally large size.

ΚΠ

1883 Fitchburg (Mass.) Daily Sentinel 19 Sept. It is on exhibition at the Atlantic Halibut company's wharf, and attracts the curiosity of a large number.]

1886 C. Hallock Our New Alaska Contents p. vii Decrease of the Atlantic halibut catch.

1946 Copeia 100 New southern record for Atlantic halibut..taken in a pound net at or near Reedville, Virginia.

2005 J. Diamond Collapse (2006) xv. 480 Among the most important fisheries that have already collapsed are Atlantic halibut, Atlantic bluefin tuna, Atlantic swordfish, North Sea herring [etc.].

Draft additions September 2013

Atlantic provinces n. the Canadian provinces situated on the Atlantic coast; (now) spec. New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador; cf. Maritime Provinces n. at maritime adj. and n. Compounds 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [noun] > Canada > parts of

north-west1682

down east1817

Atlantic provinces1855

prairie province1873

prairie provinces1878

mainland1901

maritimes1926

Palliser triangle1934

Newfie1942

sand-hill1949

Near North1952

1855 Anglo-Amer. Mag. 7 87/1 It may seem as absurd..to connect the Atlantic Provinces with British Oregon, Vancouver or Queen Charlotte's Islands, as to connect them..with New Zealand.

1923 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 107 19/2 As in the other provinces of Canada, the French were the first settlers in the Atlantic provinces.

1955 Tribune-Post (Sackville, N.B.) 3 May 1/3 [They] will make a summer tour of Eastern Canada to include concerts in all four Atlantic provinces.

2009 B. R. Rogers & S. Rogers Canada's Atlantic Provinces 1 Border disputes have never been an issue among the four Atlantic provinces, where water separates them all (except for a tiny umbilical cord that holds Nova Scotia to New Brunswick).

Draft additions April 2010

Atlantic ridley n. Kemp's ridley turtle, Lepidochelys kempii (cf. Kemp n.⁶).

ΚΠ

1952 A. Carr Handbk. Turtles 400 It seems probable that both the Atlantic ridley and that of the eastern Pacific are on the average smaller than the West Pacific population.

2004 C. Scott Endangered & Threatened Animals Florida 230/2 Like the hawksbill turtle, the precise age at which wild Atlantic ridleys become sexually mature is unknown.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	atlantic
释义	Atlanticadj.n. /atˈlantɪk/ Forms: Also (Middle English athlant), 1600s athlanticke, atlanticke, 1600s–1700s atlantick. Etymology: < Latin Atlanticus, < Greek Ἀτλαντικός , < Ἀτλαντ- : see Atlas n.¹ and -ic suffix. A. adj. 1. a. Of or pertaining to Mount Atlas in Libya, on which the heavens were fabled to rest. Hence applied to the sea near the western shore of Africa, and afterwards extended to the whole ocean lying between Europe and Africa on the east and America on the west. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > specific seas > [adjective] > Atlantic Ocean Atlantic1601 mid-Atlantic1874 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 51 This river [Guadiana]..falleth into the Spanish Atlantick Ocean. 1626 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. (ed. 2) Athlanticke Sea, is the Mediterranean, or a part thereof. 1732 T. Lediard tr. J. Terrasson Life Sethos II. 4 The Phœnicians..pass'd..into the Hesperian or Atlantick ocean. 1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 178 The southern part of the Atlantic basin. b. figurative. Far-reaching, distant; transferred in U.S.: Eastern. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > [adjective] > far-reaching longimanous1646 Atlantic1650 long-range1809 far-reaching1824 the world > space > distance > distance or farness > [adjective] sideOE fara1000 ferrenc1160 lungeteync1330 on dreicha1400 yondera1413 widec1425 roomc1443 lontaignec1450 remote1533 distant1549 remotedc1580 disloigned1596 discoasted1598 dissite1600 far-off1600 aloof1608 longinque1614 distantial1648 Atlantic1790 far-distant1793 far-away1816 far-apart1865 way off1871 1650 H. More Observ. in Enthusiasmus Triumphatus (1656) 112 Which no man were able to smell out, unlesse his nose were as Atlantick as your rauming and reaching fancy. 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 349 Mr. Bailly will sooner thaw the eternal ice of his atlantic regions, than restore the central heat to Paris. View more context for this quotation 1808 M. L. Weems Life G. Washington (ed. 6) xi. 149 Northern and Southern—Atlantic and Western. c. Of or pertaining to countries bordering on the Atlantic Ocean, in recent times esp. with reference to the political alliances of these countries. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > groups of countries > [adjective] > bordering Atlantic Atlantic1776 society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > international agreements > [adjective] > relating to alliance > relating to specific alliance European1714 Atlantic1931 Atlanticist1957 Monrovia1961 1776 H. Walpole Let. 17 Apr. (1904) IX. 349 I now submit to recall my thoughts to America... The army that was to overrun the Atlantic continent, is not half set out yet. 1931 H. G. Wells Work, Wealth & Happiness Mankind (1932) viii. 305 We of the Atlantic world are too disposed to be ungrateful to the vast experiments Communism has made. 1944 W. Lippmann U.S. War Aims 80 In addition to the United States, the United Kingdom, and France..the Atlantic Community includes..[the South American countries],..Australia, Belgium,..Canada, [etc.]. 1960 C. Fitz Gibbon When Kissing had to Stop xii. 220 She [sc. Britain] could become..the junior partner of an omnipotent Atlantic bloc. 1961 Listener 5 Oct. 493/1 Granted that Americans are not interested in Atlantic union, the emotional value to them of European union is enormous. d. Crossing the Atlantic Ocean. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > specific seas > [adjective] > Atlantic Ocean > passing or extending across transatlantic1779 Atlantic1839 1839 Southern Literary Messenger 5 5/2 The packet owners have carried the Atlantic mail..for twenty years. 1858 Harper's Mag. Oct. 700/2 We had learned articles proving that the Atlantic cable could never succeed under the existing conditions. 1898 R. Kipling Day's Work 159 Her crew signed and signed again with the regularity of Atlantic liner boatswains. †2. = Atlantean adj. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily constitution > bodily strength > [adjective] > relating to or having supporting strength Atlantic1631 Atlantean1667 the world > space > relative position > support > [adjective] > supporting > like Atlas Atlantic1631 Atlantean1667 1631 R. Brathwait Cater-character iii. 20 in Whimzies His Atlanticke shoulders are his supporters. 1652 L. S. Natures Dowrie vi. 11 Neither can one man..be so Atlantick, as to bear upon his shoulders the government of the Universe. †3. Of the nature or size of an atlas; atlas-like. ΚΠ 1768 S. Johnson in Boswell Life Johnson (1831) II. 539 The maps..fill two Atlantic folios. 4. Applied by Blytt to one of the successive periods of vegetation in Scandinavia after the glacial period, and later by others to the climate of other areas. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by habitat or distribution > [adjective] > characteristic of particular region or period southerneOE African1578 Asiatic1670 American1678 Creole1758 Californian1785 subalpine1808 Antarctic1835 Adelaidean1847 Arctic1876 Atlantic1876 gerontogeous1880 Cenomanian1902 Lusitanian1907 pantropic1911 pantropical1913 native1920 the world > the earth > structure of the earth > age or period > [adjective] > quaternary > glacial or boreal preglacial1855 boreal1876 sub-Atlantic1876 sub-boreal1876 Preboreal1924 Atlantic1935 the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > [adjective] > of or relating to climate > in the geological past > specific genial1838 pluvial1868 boreal1876 sub-Atlantic1876 sub-boreal1876 interpluvial1907 intrapluvial1934 Atlantic1935 hypsithermal1957 1876 A. Blytt Immigr. Norwegian Flora 67 We must presume that the arctic flora was here before all the others; that the subarctic came next; that the subboreal and the subatlantic..came later than the boreal and the atlantic. 1935 Discovery July 198/1 The following climatic phase of the Postglacial period, the ‘Atlantic Period’, was considerably damper than the Boreal. 1959 J. D. Clark Prehist. Southern Afr. vii. 169 The Makalian Wet Phase probably equates in time with the warm Atlantic stage in Northern Europe, between c. 5,500 b.c. and c. 2,500 b.c. 1960 B. W. Sparks Geomorphol. ix. 216 Godwin has distinguished the following phases in the development of the Fens... The pre-Boreal period..approximately 8300 to 7600 b.c...The Boreal period. From about 7600 to 5500 b.c... The Atlantic period. The period 5500 to 3000 b.c. was one of increasing dampness and of extensive peat formation. 1964 G. Manley in Watson & Sissons Brit. Isles: Syst. Geogr. 162 This event [sc. the breaking of the last land bridge between Britain and the continent] is commonly associated with the onset of ‘Full-Atlantic’ conditions, notably the mild winters that resulted from the broadening of the North and Irish Seas. B. n. The Atlantic ocean; also figurative. [For the 14th cent. athlante, compare French atlante, Atlas, also inhabitant of the mythic Atlantis (an island placed by the Greeks in the far West).] ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > specific seas > [noun] > Atlantic Ocean Atlantica1387 Western Ocean1576 pond1612 Great Lake1684 mid-Atlantic1804 millpond1813 Middle Atlantic1826 puddle1869 whale-poola1876 the world > matter > liquid > water > [noun] > body or mass Atlantica1711 slew1915 the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [noun] > vast extent > that which is latitude?a1475 sea1585 ocean1590 vasture1596 vast1604 vastity1652 vastness1674 immense1791 breadths1839 vastitude1841 Atlantic1865 wide1916 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. Rolls Ser. 53 Þe see of occean of athlant [L. oceanus Atlanticus]. a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo in Wks. (1721) III. 331 Down on the Earth it in Atlanticks rain'd. 1865 D. Masson Recent Brit. Philos. iv. 388 ‘Feelings’ or ‘phænomena of feeling’ is an indiscriminate Atlantic of a phrase. Compounds Atlantic Alliance n. = Atlantic Pact n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > international agreements > [noun] > alliance or confederacy > an alliance > specific alliances auld alliance1566 the League1589 armed neutrality1780 German Confederation1786 Germanic Confederation1815 Holy Alliance1823 the Concert of Europe1841 Sonderbund1847 Triplice1896 Soviet block1919 communist bloc1922 Eastern bloc1922 Soviet bloc1924 axis1936 Rome–Berlin Axis1936 Eastern block1938 communist block1941 Western European Union1944 Arab League1945 Western Union1948 Atlantic Pact1949 NATO1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization1949 Seato1954 W.E.U.1954 Warsaw Pact1955 Atlantic Alliance1958 ASEAN1967 G201972 1958 New Statesman 15 Feb. 185/3 Does the Atlantic alliance come first—or the principles it is pledged to uphold? Atlantic Charter n. a declaration of eight common principles in international relations, drawn up by the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt, on behalf of the British Empire and the U.S.A., at their meeting in the Western Atlantic in August 1941. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > international agreements > [noun] > alliance or confederacy > document embodying > specific Atlantic Charter1941 1941 Hutchinson's Pict. Hist. War 9 July–30 Sept. 150/1 The President of the United States and the British representative in what is aptly called the Atlantic Charter, have jointly pledged their countries to the final destruction of the Nazi tyranny. 1958 New Statesman 1 Feb. 130/3 The verbal flaying of the clumsy, the ruthless persecution of the unfortunate—these have more in common with Buchenwald than with the Atlantic Charter. Atlantic Pact n. an agreement made in 1949 to ensure the defence of countries with seaboards on the North Atlantic (cf. N.A.T.O.). ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > international agreements > [noun] > alliance or confederacy > an alliance > specific alliances auld alliance1566 the League1589 armed neutrality1780 German Confederation1786 Germanic Confederation1815 Holy Alliance1823 the Concert of Europe1841 Sonderbund1847 Triplice1896 Soviet block1919 communist bloc1922 Eastern bloc1922 Soviet bloc1924 axis1936 Rome–Berlin Axis1936 Eastern block1938 communist block1941 Western European Union1944 Arab League1945 Western Union1948 Atlantic Pact1949 NATO1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization1949 Seato1954 W.E.U.1954 Warsaw Pact1955 Atlantic Alliance1958 ASEAN1967 G201972 1949 Times 19 Mar. 5/2 The Atlantic Pact is much more than an American guarantee of Europe..it is a cooperative venture which will call for equal efforts. Atlantic States n. those of the United States situated on the Atlantic coast. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [noun] > United States > Atlantic states East Coasta1382 Atlantic States1789 1789 Deb. Congr. U.S. (1834) I. 153 The policy of taxing the navigation of the Atlantic States for the purpose of encouraging their agriculture. 1832 J. P. Kennedy Swallow Barn II. xiv. 233 Old Nick..is falling into the sere and yellow leaf, especially in the Atlantic states. 1961 H. Kurath & R. I. McDavid (title) The Pronunciation of English in the Atlantic States. Atlantic Wall n. the line of fortifications constructed by the Germans to defend the Atlantic coast of Europe in the war of 1939–45. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > [noun] > series of fortifications > specific series Hindenburg Line1917 Siegfried Line1917 Maginot Line1936 Siegfried Line1938 Mannerheim Line1939 Atlantic Wall1944 1944 Hutchinson's Pict. Hist. War 12 Apr.–26 Sept. 189/1 The first ramparts of Hitler's so-called Atlantic Wall were breached. Draft additions June 2008 Atlantic halibut n. a halibut found in the Atlantic; spec. Hippoglossus hippoglossus, which is found in temperate waters of the North Atlantic and can grow to an exceptionally large size. ΚΠ 1883 Fitchburg (Mass.) Daily Sentinel 19 Sept. It is on exhibition at the Atlantic Halibut company's wharf, and attracts the curiosity of a large number.] 1886 C. Hallock Our New Alaska Contents p. vii Decrease of the Atlantic halibut catch. 1946 Copeia 100 New southern record for Atlantic halibut..taken in a pound net at or near Reedville, Virginia. 2005 J. Diamond Collapse (2006) xv. 480 Among the most important fisheries that have already collapsed are Atlantic halibut, Atlantic bluefin tuna, Atlantic swordfish, North Sea herring [etc.]. Draft additions September 2013 Atlantic provinces n. the Canadian provinces situated on the Atlantic coast; (now) spec. New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador; cf. Maritime Provinces n. at maritime adj. and n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [noun] > Canada > parts of north-west1682 down east1817 Atlantic provinces1855 prairie province1873 prairie provinces1878 mainland1901 maritimes1926 Palliser triangle1934 Newfie1942 sand-hill1949 Near North1952 1855 Anglo-Amer. Mag. 7 87/1 It may seem as absurd..to connect the Atlantic Provinces with British Oregon, Vancouver or Queen Charlotte's Islands, as to connect them..with New Zealand. 1923 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 107 19/2 As in the other provinces of Canada, the French were the first settlers in the Atlantic provinces. 1955 Tribune-Post (Sackville, N.B.) 3 May 1/3 [They] will make a summer tour of Eastern Canada to include concerts in all four Atlantic provinces. 2009 B. R. Rogers & S. Rogers Canada's Atlantic Provinces 1 Border disputes have never been an issue among the four Atlantic provinces, where water separates them all (except for a tiny umbilical cord that holds Nova Scotia to New Brunswick). Draft additions April 2010 Atlantic ridley n. Kemp's ridley turtle, Lepidochelys kempii (cf. Kemp n.⁶). ΚΠ 1952 A. Carr Handbk. Turtles 400 It seems probable that both the Atlantic ridley and that of the eastern Pacific are on the average smaller than the West Pacific population. 2004 C. Scott Endangered & Threatened Animals Florida 230/2 Like the hawksbill turtle, the precise age at which wild Atlantic ridleys become sexually mature is unknown. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.a1387
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