Atlantic
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- Atlantick (obsolete)
Etymology[edit]
From Latin ātlanticus.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ət-lăn'tĭk, IPA(key): /ətˈlæn.tɪk/
Audio (UK) (file)
- (General American) enPR: ăt-lăn'tĭk, IPA(key): /ætˈlæn.tɪk/
- Rhymes: -æntɪk
Proper noun[edit]
Atlantic
- The Atlantic Ocean.
- A branch of the Niger-Congo languages spoken along the Atlantic coast in West Africa.
- A city, the county seat of Cass County, Iowa, United States.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
the Atlantic Ocean
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Adjective[edit]
Atlantic (not comparable)
- Pertaining to the Atlantic Ocean.
- 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.
- Pertaining to the legendary island of Atlantis.
- Pertaining to the Atlantic language family.
- 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[edit]
pertaining to the Atlantic Ocean
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Noun[edit]
Atlantic (plural Atlantics)
- (rail transport) A steam locomotive of the 4-4-2 wheel arrangement.
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