Atlantic

[ at-lan-tik ]

adjective

1. of or relating to the Atlantic Ocean.
2. of, relating to, or situated on the eastern seaboard of the United States:

   the Atlantic states.

3. of or relating to the countries bordering the Atlantic Ocean, especially those of North America and Europe.
4. of or relating to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization or its members:

   the Atlantic Alliance.

noun

1. the Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean ( def ).
2. Railroads. a steam locomotive having a four-wheeled front truck, four driving wheels, and a two-wheeled rear truck.

Atlantic

/ ətˈlæntɪk /

noun

1. See Atlantic Ocean
   the Atlantic
   the Atlantic short for Atlantic Ocean

adjective

1. of or relating to or bordering the Atlantic Ocean
2. of or relating to Atlas or the Atlas Mountains

Other Words From

• sub-At·lantic adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of Atlantic¹

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English, from Latin Atlanticum (mare), “the Atlantic (ocean),” neuter of Atlanticus, from Greek Atlantikós “of (Mount) Atlas,” equivalent to Atlant- (stem of Átlās ) + -ikos adjective suffix; Atlas ( def 1 ), -ic

Word History and Origins

Origin of Atlantic¹

C15: from Latin Atlanticus, from Greek ( pelagos ) Atlantikos (the sea) of Atlas (so called because it lay beyond the Atlas Mountains)

Example Sentences

In March 2020, The Atlantic launched a daily podcast about living through the pandemic, called “Social Distance.”

From Digiday

Alexis Madrigal is a staff writer at The Atlantic and co-founder of the Covid Tracking Project, which compiles, annotates, and publishes high-quality data about the outbreak.

From MIT Technology Review

A wedge of milder air intrudes off the warm Atlantic, in the lower layer of the cloud.

From Washington Post

They met on a ship in the middle of the Atlantic, each from the shore of a different continent.

From Time

Watching this all from across the Atlantic, the DoJ has slowly collected and built evidence to take on Google.

From Search Engine Watch

There was Air France Flight 447, which fell into the south Atlantic in 2009.

From The Daily Beast

The Atlantic has reported extensively on the at least $600 million Amazon stands to be paid for handling CIA data.

From The Daily Beast

“The youngest old man any of us knows,” an unnamed friend of Atlantic Publisher David Bradley said of Hughes.

From The Daily Beast

Much like the Taj Mahal, Revel opened in classically gaudy Atlantic City style in April 2012—with a sunrise Champagne toast.

From The Daily Beast

Notoriously, Atlantic City did not get its first supermarket until 1996.

From The Daily Beast

There is still a general tendency in universities on both sides of the Atlantic to treat propaganda as infection.

From Project Gutenberg

He had the sun-scorched look of a traveller who has just crossed the Atlantic, and he smiled at Bernard with his honest eyes.

From Project Gutenberg

It was republished at once in America, and was welcomed as warmly on this side of the Atlantic as on the other.

From Project Gutenberg

Their territory extended 400 miles on the Atlantic coast, and "from the Atlantic westward to the South sea."

From Project Gutenberg

Many wonderful things were seen by the sailors as they crossed the broad Atlantic.

From Project Gutenberg