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

From Thomas Jefferson by Merwin, Henry Childs

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

From Ulysses by Joyce, James

Men yet living can remember when in the eyes of the universal church of learning, all cisatlantic countries, our own included, were partes infidelium.

From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Newcomb, Simon

The opinions of some carried their own condemnation in their obvious extravagance; and hyperbolical admiration fairly ran itself out of breath in speaking of the wonders of this cisatlantic young Roscius.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)

New plans—secular, ethical, philosophical, religious, cisatlantic, transatlantic—long enough to make a line reaching from the German universities to Great Salt Lake City.

From New Tabernacle Sermons by Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)

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