West Atlantic

American  

noun

1. a group of languages of W Africa constituting a branch of the Niger-Congo subfamily of languages, and including Fulani and Wolof.

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West Atlantic British  

noun

1. the W part of the Atlantic Ocean, esp the N Atlantic around North America

2. a branch of the Niger-Congo family of African languages, spoken in Senegal and in scattered areas eastwards, including Fulani and Wolof

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adjective

1. relating to or belonging to this group of languages

Example Sentences

West Atlantic Port Services did not answer phone calls for comment.

From Reuters • Nov. 30, 2022

Another motel, the Sea Breeze, located at a higher section of West Atlantic City, also agreed to sell but hasn’t had the necessary repetitive losses to quality for the grant.

From Washington Times • Feb. 11, 2020

Indeed we were expecting to hear of the presence of submarines in the West Atlantic throughout the whole of 1917.

From The Crisis of the Naval War by Jellicoe, John Rushworth Jellicoe, Earl