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ˌtransatˈlantic, a., n.|trɑːns-, træns-, -nz-|
[f. trans- + Atlantic; cf. F. transatlantique.]
1. Passing or extending across the Atlantic Ocean.
1779Wilkes Corr. (1805) V. 212 After a long fruitless trans-atlantic voyage. 1892Chambers' Encycl. IX. 403/2 In 1839 Mr. Samuel Cunard..came over to England from Halifax, determined to establish..a line of transatlantic steamships. 1895N. 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.
1782Jefferson Writ. & Corr. (1894) III. 193 To suggest a doubt..whether nature has enlisted herself as a cis- or trans-Atlantic partisan. 1782Sir W. Jones in Mem., etc. (1804) 217 The sturdy transatlantic yeomanry, will neither be dragooned nor bamboozled out of their liberty. 1807W. Irving Salmag. xii. (1824) 199 His hat had the true trans-Atlantic declination towards his right ear. 1812Gen. Hist. in Ann. Reg. 161/2 The civil war kindled in those regions between the native and transatlantic Spaniards. 1891Harper's Weekly 19 Sept. 705/1 Salem had an aristocracy. The aristocrats were proud of their transatlantic ancestries.
B. n. (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’.
1826Blackw. Mag. Aug. 325/1 The Trans-Atlantics may hope to have some future share of European civilization. 1831Scott Jrnl. (1890) II. 402 Count Robert, who is progressing, as the Transatlantics say, at a very slow pace indeed. 1883Contemp. Rev. Aug. 227 A bed in a sleeping-carriage or a berth in a transatlantic. 1892Pall Mall G. 17 Aug. 2/3 Cork, Killarney, and Dublin are this year crowded with transatlantics.
Hence transatˈlantically adv., in a transatlantic or American manner; in quot. 1846, across or while crossing the Atlantic; transatˈlantican, transatlantician |-ˈɪʃən| = transatlantic B.; transatˈlanticism, transatlantic character, nationality, or behaviour; a transatlantic or American idiom.
1846Blackw. Mag. Apr. 501/1 [He] might, at that moment, be *transatlantically regaling himself at my particular expense. 1885Athenæum 3 Jan. 10/2 She..had what is Transatlantically called ‘a good time’. 1908Sat. Rev. 25 July 120/1 It is transatlantically epigrammatic without being transatlantically smart.
1897Harper's Mag. Apr. 724 English attentions to *transatlanticans savor either of patronage or servility.
1839Fraser's Mag. XIX. 467 What has a *Transatlantician to do with European squabbles? 1907Daily Chron. 16 Sept. 4/4 Trans-Atlanticians..are those who cross between New York and Liverpool or Southampton at least once a year.
1858Motley Corr. 6 June, The portentous aspect on the commonest occasions..which is apt to characterise *transatlanticism. 1895Pall Mall G. 17 Oct. 4/1 The phrase..is only one more trans-Atlanticism. |