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English
Etymology
From cis- (“on this side”) + Atlantic.
Pronunciation
Adjective
Cisatlantic (not comparable)
- Situated on the same side of the Atlantic Ocean.
1798, Thomas De Witt Talmage, Around the Tea-Table, page 190:Society to-day, trans-Atlantic and cis-Atlantic, very much needs more royal marriages.
1805, The Literary Miscellany, volume I, page 47:This well directed liberality and the vigilance and ability of the Cisatlantic defenders of Christianity.
1809, Oliver Oldschool, editor, The Port Folio, volume III, page 46:I was much struck with a communication, which, in lack of perspicuity as well as pomp of language it would puzzle our cisatlantic writers to exceed.
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “situated on the same side of the Atlantic Ocean”): Transatlantic
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