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cispontine

cispontine adjective: on this side of the bridge (or bridges).

Adjective

cispontine (not comparable)

  1. On this side of the bridge (or bridges).
    • Blood and thunder melodrama was once transpontine : it is now cispontine. It has crossed the Thames, and come over the bridges.1882, The Theatre: A Monthly Review and Magazine, page 35
    Antonyms:
    transpontine

Antonyms of cispontine

Origin of cispontine

From cis- + pontine.

Questions about cispontine

What does cispontine mean?
Cispontine means on this side of the bridge (or bridges).
What part of speech is cispontine?
Cispontine is an adjective.

Words near cispontine in the dictionary

  1. cisplatin
  2. Cisplatina
  3. cisplatine
  4. cisplatins
  5. cisplatinum
  6. cispontine
  7. cisprivilege
  8. cisqueer
  9. cisregulation
  10. cisregulatory
  11. cisrhenane

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