Atlantic

English

Alternative forms

• Atlantick (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin ātlanticus.

Pronunciation

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

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

Proper noun

Atlantic

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

Derived terms

• amphiatlantic
• Atlantic City
• Atlantic County
• Euro-Atlantic
• Mid-Atlantic
• transatlantic

 

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 USA.
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 9”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     The Seav'n Atlantick sisters.

Translations

pertaining to the Atlantic Ocean

• Antillean Creole: atlantik
• Arabic: أَطْلَسِيّ‎ (ʾaṭlasiyy)
• Catalan: atlàntic
• Cornish: Atlantek
• Czech: atlantský (cs)
• Danish: atlantisk
• Dutch: Atlantisch (nl)
• Esperanto: atlantika
• French: atlantique (fr)
• Galician: atlántico (gl)
• German: atlantisch (de)
• Irish: Atlantach

• 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)
• Yiddish: אַטלאַנטיש‎ (atlantish)

Noun

Atlantic (plural Atlantics)

1. (rail transport) A steam locomotive of the 4-4-2 wheel arrangement.

Anagrams

• tantalic