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• trans-Atlantic

語源

From trans- +‎ Atlantic.

形容詞

transatlantic (not comparable)

1. (geography) On, spanning or crossing, or from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.
   • 1955 May, Walter McGrath and Colm Creedon, “The Cork-Youghal-Cobh Section of C.I.E.”, in Railway Magazine, page 308:

     Serving the flat and fertile south-eastern part of Co. Cork is the railway that runs from Glanmire Road Station in Cork City to the popular seaside resort of Youghal (pronounced "Yawl") and the town of Cobh (pronounced "Cove"), which is Ireland's port of call for transatlantic liners.

   • 1961 August, “New traffic flows in South Wales”, in Trains Illustrated, page 492:

     Many travellers via Fishguard regret the closing by British Transport Hotels & Catering Services of the Fishguard Bay Hotel, built by the G.W.R. early in the century for the expected transatlantic traffic.

   • 2016 November 15, Karla Pequenino, “The women pilots that history forgot”, in CNN‎:

     Ruth Elder was known for her beauty and acting, but her real dream was to become the female version of transatlantic aviator Charles Lindbergh.

使用する際の注意点

• transatlantic is several times more common than trans-Atlantic. GPO manual lists transatlantic as an exception to the recommendation that prefixing capitalized words should retain the capitalization and use a hyphen.

反意語

• (antonym(s) of “situated on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean”): cisatlantic

参考

• transpacific
• Mid-Atlantic

参照

Further reading

• “transatlantic”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.