ˌtransatˈlantic, a., n.
(trɑːns-, træns-, -nz-)
[f. trans- + Atlantic; cf. F. transatlantique.]
1. Passing or extending across the Atlantic Ocean.
| 1779 Wilkes Corr. (1805) V. 212 After a long fruitless trans-atlantic voyage. 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. 1895 N. 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.
| 1782 Jefferson Writ. & Corr. (1894) III. 193 To suggest a doubt..whether nature has enlisted herself as a cis- or trans-Atlantic partisan. 1782 Sir W. Jones in Mem., etc. (1804) 217 The sturdy transatlantic yeomanry, will neither be dragooned nor bamboozled out of their liberty. 1807 W. Irving Salmag. xii. (1824) 199 His hat had the true trans-Atlantic declination towards his right ear. 1812 Gen. Hist. in Ann. Reg. 161/2 The civil war kindled in those regions between the native and transatlantic Spaniards. 1891 Harper'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’.
| 1826 Blackw. Mag. Aug. 325/1 The Trans-Atlantics may hope to have some future share of European civilization. 1831 Scott Jrnl. (1890) II. 402 Count Robert, who is progressing, as the Transatlantics say, at a very slow pace indeed. 1883 Contemp. Rev. Aug. 227 A bed in a sleeping-carriage or a berth in a transatlantic. 1892 Pall 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.
| 1846 Blackw. Mag. Apr. 501/1 [He] might, at that moment, be *transatlantically regaling himself at my particular expense. 1885 Athenæum 3 Jan. 10/2 She..had what is Transatlantically called ‘a good time’. 1908 Sat. Rev. 25 July 120/1 It is transatlantically epigrammatic without being transatlantically smart. |
| 1897 Harper's Mag. Apr. 724 English attentions to *transatlanticans savor either of patronage or servility. |
| 1839 Fraser's Mag. XIX. 467 What has a *Transatlantician to do with European squabbles? 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. |
| 1858 Motley Corr. 6 June, The portentous aspect on the commonest occasions..which is apt to characterise *transatlanticism. 1895 Pall Mall G. 17 Oct. 4/1 The phrase..is only one more trans-Atlanticism. |