cispontine
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]cispontine (not comparable)
- On this side of the bridge (or bridges).
- Antonym: transpontine
- 1882, The Theatre: A Monthly Review and Magazine, page 35:
- Blood and thunder melodrama was once transpontine : it is now cispontine. It has crossed the Thames, and come over the bridges.
Usage notes
[edit]- In London, refers to the parts north of the Thames.
Further reading
[edit]- “cispontine”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.