Cisatlantic

See also: cis-Atlantic and cisatlantic

English

WOTD – 15 February 2012

Alternative forms

• cis-Atlantic, cisatlantic

Etymology

From 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^[1], page 190:

     Society to-day, trans-Atlantic and cis-Atlantic, very much needs more royal marriages.

   • 1805, The Literary Miscellany‎^[2], 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^[3], 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

Anagrams

• anticlastic