Cisatlantic

Alternative forms

• cis-Atlantic, cisatlantic

Etymology

cis- (“on this side”) +‎ Atlantic

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sĭsătlănʹtĭk, IPA^(key): /sɪsætˈlæntɪk/

Adjective

Cisatlantic (not comparable)

1. 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 I, page 47

     This well directed liberality and the vigilance and ability of the Cisatlantic defenders of Christianity.

   • 1809, Oliver Oldschool [ed.], The Port Folio 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.

Anagrams

• anticlastic