transmontaneadj.
/trɑːnzˈmɒnteɪn/, /tranzˈmɒnteɪn/, /trɑːnsˈmɒnteɪn/, /transˈmɒnteɪn/, U.S. /trænzˈmɑnˌteɪn/, /træn(t)sˈmɑnˌteɪn/ 1. Dwelling or situated beyond, or on the other side of, the mountains; = tramontane adj. 1.
a. From the Italian point of view: North of the Alps.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [adjective] > foreign (of country or place) or situated abroad
althedyOE
strange1297
foreigna1393
outward1427
extern1543
abroad1559
external1587
stranger1593
tramontane1596
oversea1645
transmontane1727
trans-oceanic1827
overseas1892
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [adjective] > foreign (of country or place) or situated abroad > of or relating to a foreign land
un-i-cundeeOE
althedisheOE
althedyOE
elelendisha1000
fremda1000
outlandishOE
strange1297
outenc1300
unkindc1300
outlandsc1330
foreign?1435
outland1488
peregrine1532
uncouth1533
forinsecal1539
exterior1540
extern1543
unnative1568
uplandish1586
external1587
tramontane1596
exotical1601
estranged1614
undenizened1635
extra-marine1639
outlanding1643
ultramarine1656
transmontane1727
forinsec service1728
foreigneering1806
trans-oceanic1827
vilayati1843
alienized1860
oversea1881
overwater1889
overseas1892
furrin1895
non-native1932
1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Transmontane, dwelling or growing beyond the Mountains.
1828 K. H. Digby Broad Stone of Honour: Tancredus iv. 20 The Britons, English, and other transmontane people.
1857 Fraser's Mag. 56 503 The proud citizens of Rome witnessed with indignation the influx of a crowd of transmontane artists.
1880 J. Nichol Byron viii. 139 To abandon their transmontane plans, and agree to take up their head-quarters at Pisa.
b. In reference to other mountains, e.g. the Grampians in Scotland, the Rocky Mountains in North America, the Blue Mountains in New South Wales. Also of traffic, across or over the mountains.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > mountain > [adjective] > far side or beyond
ultramontane1786
transnivean1854
transmontane1884
the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > mountain > [adjective] > passing across
transmontane1884
1884 Science 22 Feb. 220/1 Keeping back the migration..in order to monopolize this transmontane commerce.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 124 The transmontane towns.
1897 D. L. Leonard in Home Missionary (N.Y.) Jan. 450 Just now [1842–6] it was that the entire transmontane region was added to the Union.
1900 W. Watt Aberdeen & Banff i. 4 The northern or transmontane Picts.
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the world > the universe > star > kind of star > giant > [noun] > supergiant > Pole star
North Stara1387
polea1398
shipman-star1398
pole arcticc1400
tramontanec1400
transmontane starc1400
pommel1503
sail-star?c1510
Pole Star1555
star?1555
Arctic Pole1565
polar star1578
northern star1590
cynosure1596
Polaris1675
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xvii. 180 In þat lond, ne in many othere beȝonde þat, noman may see the sterre transmontane,..þat wee clepen the lode-sterre.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xvii. 180 The sterre þat is clept the transmontayne.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xvii. 181 Aȝen þat transmontayne is the toþer sterre, þat is clept Antartyke.
Derivatives
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society > faith > sect > Christianity > Roman Catholicism > Roman Catholic sects and groups > [adjective] > transmontane
transmontanian1624
transalpine1794
1624 T. Scott tr. Aphorismes of State sig. Bv Carion, Auentine, Cuspinianus, and other Transmontanian Writings.
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