cisatlantic

American  

[sis-uht-lan-tik] / ˌsɪs ətˈlæn tɪk /

adjective

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

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Etymology

Origin of cisatlantic

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

Example Sentences

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 Brown, William Wells

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)

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

From Explorers of the Dawn by Morley, Christopher