transatlantic

[trans-uht-lan-tik, tranz-]

adjective

1. crossing or reaching across the Atlantic.

   a transatlantic liner.

2. situated beyond the Atlantic.

transatlantic

/ ˌtrænzətˈlæntɪk /

adjective

1. on or from the other side of the Atlantic

2. crossing the Atlantic

Other Word Forms

• transatlantically adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of transatlantic¹

First recorded in 1770–80; trans- + Atlantic

Example Sentences

Last year, Commonwealth leaders agreed it was time for a "meaningful, truthful and respectful conversation" about reparatory justice for the "abhorrent" transatlantic slave trade.

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When West Africans, primarily Yoruba people, were enslaved and forced to Cuba during the transatlantic enslavement trade, they carried their cosmologies with them.

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This was one vignette from the striking array of the world's biggest Silicon Valley tech companies turning on the transatlantic investment tap.

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A British Airways flight attendant who was found naked and high on drugs in a plane toilet during a transatlantic flight has been told by a judge he "let himself down".

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If you asked the average listener who Blur is, you’d be lucky to get an answer that didn’t mention “Song 2,” the British band’s smash-hit-turned-stadium-anthem that launched them to transatlantic fame.

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Related Words

• abroad 
• foreign