Atlantic









Atlantic


Atlantic [at-lan-tik] ExamplesWord Origin adjective

  1. of or relating to the Atlantic Ocean.
  2. of, relating to, or situated on the eastern seaboard of the U.S.: the Atlantic states.
  3. of or relating to the countries bordering the Atlantic Ocean, especially those of North America and Europe.
  4. of or relating to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization or its members: the Atlantic Alliance.

noun

  1. Atlantic Ocean.
  2. Railroads. a steam locomotive having a four-wheeled front truck, four driving wheels, and a two-wheeled rear truck.

Origin of Atlantic 1350–1400; Middle English Latin Atlanticum (mare) the Atlantic (ocean), neuter of Atlanticus Greek Atlantikós of (Mount) Atlas, equivalent to Atlant- (stem of Átlās) + -ikos -ic Related formssub-At·lan·tic, adjective Examples from the Web for atlantic Contemporary Examples of atlantic

  • There was Air France Flight 447, which fell into the south Atlantic in 2009.

    Red Tape and Black Boxes: Why We Keep ‘Losing’ Airliners in 2014

    Clive Irving

    December 29, 2014

  • The Atlantic has reported extensively on the at least $600 million Amazon stands to be paid for handling CIA data.

    How Amazon Became Santa’s Sweatshop

    Sally Kohn

    December 11, 2014

  • “The youngest old man any of us knows,” an unnamed friend of Atlantic Publisher David Bradley said of Hughes.

    The Rise and Fall of Chris Hughes and Sean Eldridge, America’s Worst Gay Power Couple

    James Kirchick

    December 9, 2014

  • Much like the Taj Mahal, Revel opened in classically gaudy Atlantic City style in April 2012—with a sunrise Champagne toast.

    I Watched a Casino Kill Itself: The Awful Last Nights of Atlantic City’s Taj Mahal

    Olivia Nuzzi

    December 8, 2014

  • Notoriously, Atlantic City did not get its first supermarket until 1996.

    I Watched a Casino Kill Itself: The Awful Last Nights of Atlantic City’s Taj Mahal

    Olivia Nuzzi

    December 8, 2014

  • Historical Examples of atlantic

  • It ain’t any trouble, because it’s the first land you’ll strike the other side of the Atlantic.

    Tom Sawyer Abroad

    Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

  • This was blockading the Atlantic against their enemies, and the Mediterranean against their own ships.

    Ned Myers

    James Fenimore Cooper

  • The brig sailed, however, and stood across the Atlantic, as if in good earnest.

    Ned Myers

    James Fenimore Cooper

  • Was it possible to submerge the cable in the Atlantic, and would it be safe at the bottom?

    Heroes of the Telegraph

    J. Munro

  • He it was who forged the shaft of the Savannah, the first steamship which crossed the Atlantic.

    Heroes of the Telegraph

    J. Munro

  • British Dictionary definitions for atlantic Atlantic noun

    1. the Atlantic short for Atlantic Ocean

    adjective

    1. of or relating to or bordering the Atlantic Ocean
    2. of or relating to Atlas or the Atlas Mountains

    Word Origin for Atlantic C15: from Latin Atlanticus, from Greek (pelagos) Atlantikos (the sea) of Atlas (so called because it lay beyond the Atlas Mountains) Word Origin and History for atlantic Atlantic

    late 14c., occean of Athlant “sea off the west coast of Africa” (early 15c. as occean Atlantyke), from Latin Atlanticus, from Greek Atlantikos “of Atlas,” adjectival form of Atlas (genitive Atlantos), in reference to Mount Atlas in Mauritania (see Atlas). Applied to the whole ocean since c.1600.

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