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cisatlantic

American  
[sis-uht-lan-tik] / ˌsɪs ətˈlæn tɪk /

adjective

  1. on this (the speaker's or writer's) side of the Atlantic.


Etymology

Origin of cisatlantic

An Americanism dating back to 1775–85; cis- + Atlantic

Example Sentences

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The language of the excellent Mary Ellen, for instance, comes to me with a distinct cisatlantic sound.

From Explorers of the Dawn by Christopher Morley

Our second, never to suffer Europe to meddle in cisatlantic affairs.”

From Thomas Jefferson by Henry Childs Merwin

The present memoir will, therefore, simply comprise a brief sketch of the most interesting portion of Mr. Brown's history while in America, together with a short account of his subsequent cisatlantic career.

From Three Years in Europe Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met by William Wells Brown

Both preferred a continental to an insular manner of life, a cisatlantic to a transatlantic place of residence.

From Ulysses by James Joyce

America did not become a cisatlantic Britain, as some of the colonial adventurers had hoped.

From The Armies of Labor A chronicle of the organized wage-earners by Samuel Peter Orth

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