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 ; trans-, mount ², -an

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

It called not only for the building of a transmontane canal to the Ohio but also for a connecting canal from the Ohio to the Great Lakes.

From The Paths of Inland Commerce; a chronicle of trail, road, and waterway by Hulbert, Archer Butler

In the Virginia and Pennsylvania capitals, the transmontane country was still a misty region.

From Afloat on the Ohio An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo by Thwaites, Reuben Gold

The Dixie frontier: a social history of the southern frontier from the First transmontane beginnings to the Civil War.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1975 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

But at that time they inhabited only a small portion of the country and had not obtained any transmontane sovereignty.

From Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C. 69-44). by Foster, Herbert Baldwin