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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 Project Gutenberg

Could France have won his influence in her behalf, England could not have broken that rival power in America without an exhausting expenditure of men and treasure, and without leaders of a different stamp from the blockheads with whom she long continued to paralyze her Cisatlantic armies.

From Project Gutenberg

Certainly the learning of these Lectures is unequalled, even by his former exhibitions in that line; and our Cisatlantic standard of attainment seems rather scanty beside this vast affluence.

From Project Gutenberg

Americans often fancied that they noticed something American in Leigh Hunt's physique and manners, without knowing how near he came to owning a Cisatlantic birth.

From Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg