Atlantic

English

Alternative forms

• Atlantick (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English Atlantyke, from Latin Ā̆tlanticus, from Ancient Greek Ἀτλαντικός (Atlantikós, “Atlantean, of Atlas”), from Ancient Greek Ἄτλᾱς (Átlās), either from ἁ- (ha-, copulative prefix) + Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“bear, undergo, endure”) or of Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ət-lăn'tĭk, IPA^(key): /ətˈlæn.tɪk/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) enPR: ăt-lăn'tĭk, IPA^(key): /ætˈlæn.tɪk/, /ætˈlæn.ɪk/, [ætˈlæɾ̃.ɪk]
• Rhymes: -æntɪk

Proper noun

the Atlantic

1. The Atlantic Ocean.
2. A phase of the Holocene epoch in the Blytt–Sernander system, extending from approximately 8,000 to 5,000 years before present.

Proper noun

Atlantic

1. A branch of the Niger-Congo languages spoken along the Atlantic coast in West Africa.
2. A city, the county seat of Cass County, Iowa, United States.

Derived terms

• amphiatlantic
• Atlantic City
• Atlantic County
• Atlantic croaker
• Atlantic Daylight Time
• Atlantic ghost crab
• Atlantic Highlands
• Atlantic hookear sculpin
• Atlantic silverside
• Atlantic tarpon
• Atlantic Time
• Atlantic trumpetfish
• Atlantic Wall
• East Atlantic peacock wrasse
• Euro-Atlantic
• Graveyard of the Atlantic
• Mid-Atlantic
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• Subatlantic
• trans-Atlantic
• transatlantic
• West Atlantic trumpetfish

Translations

Atlantic Ocean — see Atlantic Ocean

Adjective

Atlantic (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to the Atlantic Ocean.
2. Pertaining to locations adjacent to or in the vicinity of the Atlantic Ocean, such as the British Isles in Northwestern Europe, or the eastern seaboard of the United States.
3. Pertaining to the legendary island of Atlantis.
4. Pertaining to the Atlantic language family.
5. Descended from the legendary Atlas.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     The Seav'n Atlantick sisters.

Derived terms

• Atlantic diet
• Atlantic surf clam

Descendants

• → Welsh: Atlantig, Atlantaidd

Translations

pertaining to the Atlantic Ocean

• Antillean Creole: atlantik
• Arabic: أَطْلَسِيّ (ʔaṭlasiyy)
• Asturian: atlánticu
• Belarusian: атланты́чны (atlantýčny)
• Catalan: atlàntic
• Cornish: Atlantek
• Czech: atlantský (cs)
• Danish: atlantisk
• Dutch: Atlantisch (nl)
• Esperanto: atlantika
• French: atlantique (fr)
• Galician: atlántico (gl)
• German: atlantisch (de)
• Hungarian: atlanti (hu)
• Irish: Atlantach
• Italian: atlantico (it)
• Latvian: atlantisks
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: atlantisk

  Nynorsk: atlantisk

• Occitan: atlantic
• Polish: atlantycki (pl)
• Portuguese: atlântico (pt)
• Romanian: atlantic (ro)
• Russian: атланти́ческий (ru) (atlantíčeskij)
• Slovak: atlantický
• Spanish: atlántico (es)
• Ukrainian: атланти́чний (atlantýčnyj)
• Welsh: Iwerydd (adjectival noun), Atlantaidd, Atlantig
• Yiddish: אַטלאַנטיש (atlantish)

Noun

Atlantic (plural Atlantics)

1. (rail transport) A steam locomotive of the 4-4-2 wheel arrangement.
   • 1944 January and February, 'Voyageur', “Atlantic Locomotives on the G.W.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 26:

     It is equally curious that whereas the first Swindon-built Atlantic began its career as a 4-6-0, the first Great Western 4-cylinder 4-6-0 began its career as an Atlantic.

   • 1952 December, R. S. McNaught, “The Voice of the Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, page 839:

     Where these Atlantics fell from acoustic grace, however, was in their feeble screechy little whistle, so different from the N.B.R. mellow standard pattern.

   • 1958 June, “The Last British Atlantic”, in Railway Magazine, page 383:

     A chapter of locomotive history was closed on Sunday, April 13, when the last Atlantic tender locomotive to remain in service on British Railways, No. 32424, Beachy Head, ended its working life of more than 46 years.

Anagrams

• tantalic