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Transatlantic. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1916, rev. 2022. Transatlantic a., sb. [f. TRANS- + ATLANTIC; cf. F. transatlantique.]

1   1.  Passing or extending across the Atlantic Ocean.

2 1779.  Wilkes, Corr. (1805), V. 212. After a long fruitless trans-atlantic voyage.

3 1892.  Chambers’ Encycl., IX. 403/2. In 1839. Mr. Samuel Cunard … came over to England from Halifax, determined to establish … a line of transatlantic steamships.

4 1895.  N. Amer. Rev., Nov., 514. Or the utmost importance to all transatlantic travellers.

5   2.  Situated or resident in, or pertaining to a region beyond the Atlantic; chiefly in European use: = American.

6 1782.  T. Jefferson, Writ. & Corr. (1894), III. 193. To suggest a doubt … whether nature has enlisted herself as a cis- or trans-Atlantic partisan.

7 1782.  Sir W. Jones, in Mem., etc. (1804), 217. The sturdy transatlantic yeomanry, will neither be dragooned nor bamboozled out of their liberty.

8 1807.  W. Irving, Salmag., xii. (1824), 199. His hat had the true trans-Atlantic declination towards his right ear.

9 1812.  Gen. Hist., in Ann. Reg., 161/2. The civil war kindled in those regions between the native and transatlantic Spaniards.

10 1891.  Harper’s Weekly, 19 Sept., 705/1. Salem had an aristocracy. The aristocrats were proud of their transatlantic ancestries.

11   B.  sb. (absol. use of adj.): 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.’

12 1826.  Blackw. Mag., Aug., 325/1. The Trans-Atlantics may hope to have some future share of European civilization.

13 1831.  Scott, Jrnl. (1890), II. 402. Count Robert, who is progressing, as the Transatlantics say, at a very slow pace indeed.

14 1883.  Contemp. Rev., Aug., 227. A bed in a sleeping-carriage or a berth in a transatlantic.

15 1892.  Pall Mall G., 17 Aug., 2/3. Cork, Killarney, and Dublin are this year crowded with transatlantics.

16   Hence Transatlantically adv., in a transatlantic or American manner; in quot. 1846, across or while crossing the Atlantic; Transatlantican, Transatlantician = TRANSATLANTIC B.; Transatlanticism, transatlantic character, nationality, or behavior; a transatlantic or American idiom.

17 1846.  Blackw. Mag., April, 501/1. [He] might, at that moment, be *transatlantically regaling himself at my particular expense.

18 1885.  Athenæum, 3 Jan., 10/2. She … had what is Transatlantically called ‘a good time.’

19 1908.  Sat. Rev., 25 July, 120/1. It is transatlantically epigrammatic without being transatlantically smart.

20 1897.  Harper’s Mag., April, 724. English attentions to *transatlanticans savor either of patronage or servility.

21 1839.  Fraser’s Mag., XIX. 467. What has a *Transatlantician to do with European squabbles?

22 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.

23 1858.  Motley, Corr., 6 June. The portentous aspect on the commonest occasions … which is apt to characterise *transatlanticism.

24 1895.  Pall Mall G., 17 Oct., 4/1. The phrase … is only one more trans-Atlanticism.

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