| 单词 | middle atlantic |
| 释义 | > as lemmasMiddle Atlantic Middle Atlantic adj. and n. (also middle Atlantic) [compare earlier mid-Atlantic n.] (a) adj. of or relating to the central region of the eastern seaboard of the United States; spec. designating the states of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania; cf. middle state n. 2; (b) n. the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. 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 > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [adjective] > U.S.A. > specific states or regions > others Carolinian1705 Georgian1740 Missourian1761 Alaskian1788 Vermontese1798 Alaskan1807 Michigan1814 Russo-American1814 Illinoian1818 Mississippian1819 Middle Atlantic1826 New Mexican1834 Louisianian1835 Texian1835 Oregonian1850 Texan1852 Nebraskan1853 Tennessean1853 Ozark1856 Dakotan1874 Kansan1894 Ozarkian1906 Tex-Mex1949 Texican1982 1826 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 84 The North-western Indians are connected with those of the Eastern and middle Atlantic coast. 1843 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Jan. 8 The ‘Mayflower’..struggles along the middle Atlantic, surrounded by all the terrors of the midnight storm. 1854 Amer. Farmer's New & Universal Hand-bk. 54 In this country it is grown in the north-eastern and middle Atlantic states. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 836/2 The last distinct literary personality to emerge from the miscellany of talent in the middle of the century, in the middle Atlantic states, was James Bayard Taylor. 1932 Sun (Baltimore) 6 Sept. 14/2 The play-off for the Middle Atlantic League baseball title will start Wednesday. 1959 P. O'Brian Unknown Shore x. 200 They sailed through a phosphorescent sea as warm as milk, across the middle Atlantic to Brazil. 1976 W. W. Warner Beautiful Swimmers vi. 127 The menhaden has even more names than the herring. In New England it is the pogy; in the middle Atlantic states, the mossbunker. 1993 Washington Post 2 May (Mag. section) 10/2 As an instructor, the Vienna resident and former Middle Atlantic PGA teacher of the year has earned a godlike reputation. < as lemmas |
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