transmontane

American  

[trans-mon-teyn, tranz-, trans-mon-teyn, tranz-] / trænsˈmɒn teɪn, trænz-, ˌtræns mɒnˈteɪn, ˌtrænz- /

adjective

1. tramontane.

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transmontane British  

/ ˌtrænzmɒnˈteɪn /

adjective

1. another word for tramontane

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Etymology

Origin of transmontane

1720–30; < Latin trānsmontānus ; see trans-, mount ², -an

Example Sentences

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transmontane

But not every schoolboy's father is conscious of the peculiar individ uality of the transmontane commonwealth.

From Time Magazine Archive

The whole transmontane populace welcomed Frankland with enthusiasm.

From Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground by Constance Lindsay Skinner

Like the people of the Fort Hall plains they had fairly large herds of horses, which enabled them to take part in the transmontane buffalo hunt.

From Shoshone-Bannock Subsistence and Society by Robert F. Murphy

From India he proceeds to the island of Lamary, the Lambri of Marco Polo; and by using the Italian term "the star transmontane," at once betrays the source of his plagiarism.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 01 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

Thus was established the pattern of transmontane buffalo hunting, first reported by Lewis and Clark and studied latterly by many anthropologists.

From Shoshone-Bannock Subsistence and Society by Robert F. Murphy