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transpontine

[ trans-pon-tin, -tahyn ]

adjective

  1. across or beyond a bridge.
  2. on the southern side of the Thames in London.


transpontine

/ trænzˈpɒntaɪn /

adjective

  1. on or from the far side of a bridge
  2. archaic.
    on or from the south side of the Thames in London


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Word History and Origins

Origin of transpontine1

1835–45; trans- + Latin pont- (stem of pōns ) bridge + -ine 1

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Word History and Origins

Origin of transpontine1

C19: trans- + -pontine , from Latin pōns bridge

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Example Sentences

And he strode along with the air of the heavy man in a transpontine melodrama.

He talked after a fashion of the characters in an early Victorian novel or a transpontine melodrama.

Thou sawest thy America, thy lifetask, and didst charge to cover like the transpontine bison.

Transpontine, trans-pon′tin, adj. situated across a bridge, esp.

The arable infants seem to gravitate towards the transpontine districts south of the Thames.

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