Fromtrans- +Atlantic.
transatlantic (notcomparable)
- (geography) On,spanning orcrossing, or from the other side of theAtlantic Ocean.
1955 May, Walter McGrath and Colm Creedon, “The Cork-Youghal-Cobh Section of C.I.E.”, inRailway Magazine, page308:Serving the flat and fertile south-eastern part of Co. Cork is the railway that runs from Glanmire Road Station in Cork City to the popular seaside resort ofYoughal (pronounced "Yawl") and the town ofCobh (pronounced "Cove"), which is Ireland's port of call fortransatlantic liners.
1961 August, “New traffic flows in South Wales”, inTrains Illustrated, page492:Many travellers via Fishguard regret the closing by British Transport Hotels & Catering Services of the Fishguard Bay Hotel, built by the G.W.R. early in the century for the expectedtransatlantic traffic.
2016 November 15, Karla Pequenino, “The women pilots that history forgot”, inCNN[1]:Ruth Elder was known for her beauty and acting, but her real dream was to become the female version oftransatlantic aviator Charles Lindbergh.
- transatlantic is several times more common thantrans-Atlantic.[1] GPO manual liststransatlantic as an exception to the recommendation that prefixing capitalized words should retain the capitalization and use a hyphen.[2]
- (antonym(s) of“situated on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean”):cisatlantic
spanning or crossing the Atlantic
Borrowed fromFrenchtransatlantique. Bysurface analysis,trans- +atlantic.
transatlantic m orn (feminine singulartransatlantică,masculine pluraltransatlantici,feminine/neuter pluraltransatlantice)
- transatlantic
