transatlanticadj.n.
/trɑːnzətˈlantɪk/, /tranzətˈlantɪk/, /trɑːnsətˈlantɪk/, /transətˈlantɪk/, U.S. /ˌtrænzətˈlæn(t)ɪk/, /ˌtræn(t)sətˈlæn(t)ɪk/ A. adj.
1. Passing or extending across the Atlantic Ocean.
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the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > specific seas > [adjective] > Atlantic Ocean > passing or extending across
transatlantic1779
Atlantic1839
1779 J. Wilkes Corr. (1805) V. 212 After a long fruitless trans-atlantic voyage.
1892 Chambers's Encycl. IX. 403/2 In 1839 Mr. Samuel Cunard..came over to England from Halifax, determined to establish..a line of transatlantic steamships.
1895 N. Amer. Rev. Nov. 514 Of the utmost importance to all transatlantic travellers.
2. Situated or resident in, or pertaining to a region beyond the Atlantic; chiefly in European use: = American adj.
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > [adjective]
American1580
transatlantic1782
pan-American1879
New World1886
all-American1889
pseudo-American1938
the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > specific seas > [adjective] > Atlantic Ocean > on the other side of
transatlantic1782
1782 T. Jefferson Writings (1894) III. 193 To suggest a doubt..whether nature has enlisted herself as a cis- or trans-Atlantic partisan.
1782 Sir W. Jones in Mem., etc. (1804) 217 The sturdy transatlantic yeomanry, will neither be dragooned nor bamboozled out of their liberty.
1807 Salmagundi 27 June 233 His hat had the true trans-atlantic declination towards his right ear.
1812 Gen. Hist. in Ann. Reg. 161/2 The civil war kindled in those regions between the native and transatlantic Spaniards.
1891 Harper's Weekly 19 Sept. 705/1 Salem had an aristocracy. The aristocrats were proud of their transatlantic ancestries.
B. n.
(absolute use of the adjective): One who or that which is across the Atlantic; a native or inhabitant of a transatlantic country; spec. an American; also short for ‘transatlantic steamer’.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > [noun]
American1648
transatlantic1826
transatlantican1839
New Worlder1851
New-Worldling1893
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > mechanically propelled vessels > [noun] > propelled by steam engine > ocean-going or transatlantic
ocean steamer1839
transatlantic1883
1826 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 325/1 The Trans-Atlantics may hope to have some future share of European civilization.
1831 W. Scott Jrnl. 2 May (1946) 165 Count Robert, who is progressing, as the Transatlantic say, at a very slow pace indeed.
1883 Contemp. Rev. Aug. 227 A bed in a sleeping-carriage or a berth in a transatlantic.
1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 17 Aug. 2/3 Cork, Killarney, and Dublin are this year crowded with transatlantics.
Derivatives
transatˈlantically adv. in a transatlantic or American manner; in quot. 1846, across or while crossing the Atlantic.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > [adverb]
transatlantically1846
1846 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 501/1 [He] might, at that moment, be transatlantically regaling himself at my particular expense.
1885 Athenæum 3 Jan. 10/2 She..had what is Transatlantically called ‘a good time’.
1908 Sat. Rev. 25 July 120/1 It is transatlantically epigrammatic without being transatlantically smart.
transatˈlantican n. (also transatlantician /-ˈɪʃən/) = B.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > [noun]
American1648
transatlantic1826
transatlantican1839
New Worlder1851
New-Worldling1893
society > travel > aspects of travel > traveller > [noun] > across the Atlantic
transatlantican1839
1839 Fraser's Mag. 19 467 What has a Transatlantician to do with European squabbles?
1897 Harper's Mag. Apr. 724 English attentions to transatlanticans savor either of patronage or servility.
1907 Daily Chron. 16 Sept. 4/4 Trans-Atlanticians..are those who cross between New York and Liverpool or Southampton at least once a year.
transatˈlanticism n. transatlantic character, nationality, or behaviour; a transatlantic or American idiom.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > [noun] > characteristic
transatlanticism1858
the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > American English > idiom of
Americanism1781
Yankeeism1820
New Englandism1831
Westernism1836
Canadianism1838
Hoosierism1843
southernism1855
transatlanticism1858
frontierism1890
New Yorkerism1951
1858 J. L. Motley Let. 6 June in Corr. (1889) I. viii. 248 The portentous aspect on the commonest occasions..which is apt to characterise transatlanticism.
1895 Pall Mall Gaz. 17 Oct. 4/1 The phrase..is only one more trans-Atlanticism.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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