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transatlantically

transatlantically adverb: on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.

Adverb

transatlantically (comparative more transatlantically, superlative most transatlantically)

  1. On the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.
    • Perhaps they had killed a lot of Yankees – to make themselves Trans-Atlantically popular.1926, Ford Madox Ford, A Man Could Stand Up— (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 562
    • All of the texts that were printed transatlantically before the Chace Act participated in this immense literary field, yet neither Casanova nor Bourdieu consider bookworkers as participants in this contested field.2008, Jessica Rae DeSpain, Steaming Across the Pond, page 3

Forms of transatlantically

comparativemore transatlantically
superlativemost transatlantically
alternative formtrans-Atlantically

Origin of transatlantically

From transatlantic + -ally.

Questions about transatlantically

What does transatlantically mean?
Transatlantically means on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.
What part of speech is transatlantically?
Transatlantically is an adverb.

Words near transatlantically in the dictionary

  1. transarticular
  2. transarticularly
  3. transasiatic
  4. transat
  5. transatlantic
  6. transatlantically
  7. transatlanticism
  8. transatrial
  9. transats
  10. transaudient
  11. transaural

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