Download the app
educalingo
Search
It is impossible to exaggerate the wide, and widening, gulf between the American attitude on the Iraq war and the view from our friends across the Atlantic.
Nick Clooney

Meaning of "Atlantic" in the English dictionary

Dictionary
DICTIONARY
section

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ATLANTIC

From Latin Atlanticus, from Greek ( pelagos) Atlantikos (the sea) of Atlas (so called because it lay beyond the Atlas Mountains).
info
Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
facebooktwitterpinterestwhatsapp
section

PRONUNCIATION OF ATLANTIC

Atlantic  [ətˈlæntɪk] play
facebooktwitterpinterestwhatsapp

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ATLANTIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Atlantic can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES ATLANTIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Atlantic

Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the world's second largest ocean, behind the Pacific Ocean. With a total area of about 106,400,000 square kilometres, it covers approximately 20 percent of the Earth's surface and about 29 percent of its water surface area. The first part of its name refers to Atlas of Greek mythology, making the Atlantic the "Sea of Atlas". The oldest known mention of "Atlantic" is in The Histories of Herodotus around 450 BC: Atlantis thalassa. The term Ethiopic Ocean, derived from Ethiopia, was applied to the southern Atlantic as late as the mid-19th century. Before Europeans discovered other oceans, their term "ocean" was synonymous with the waters beyond the Strait of Gibraltar that are now known as the Atlantic. The early Greeks believed this ocean to be a gigantic river encircling the world. The Atlantic Ocean occupies an elongated, S-shaped basin extending longitudinally between Eurasia and Africa to the east, and the Americas to the west.

Definition of Atlantic in the English dictionary

The definition of Atlantic in the dictionary is of or relating to or bordering the Atlantic Ocean. Other definition of Atlantic is of or relating to Atlas or the Atlas Mountains.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ATLANTIC


antic
ˈæntɪk
antick
ˈæntɪk
anticke
ˈæntɪk
cantic
ˈkæntɪk
frantic
ˈfræntɪk
geomantic
ˌdʒiːəʊˈmæntɪk
gigantic
dʒaɪˈɡæntɪk
hydromantic
ˌhaɪdrəʊˈmæntɪk
mantic
ˈmæntɪk
necromantic
ˌnekrəʊˈmæntɪk
obscurantic
ˌɒbskjʊˈræntɪk
pedantic
pɪˈdæntɪk
romantic
rəʊˈmæntɪk
semantic
sɪˈmæntɪk
spodomantic
ˌspɒdəˈmæntɪk
superromantic
ˌsuːpərrəʊˈmæntɪk
sycophantic
ˌsɪkəˈfæntɪk
transatlantic
ˌtrænzətˈlæntɪk
unromantic
ˌʌnrəʊˈmæntɪk
Vedantic
vɪˈdæntɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ATLANTIC

Atkins
Atkinson
Atlanta
Atlantean
atlantes
Atlantic Charter
Atlantic City
Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway
Atlantic liner
Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic Provinces
Atlantic Standard Time
Atlanticism
Atlanticist
Atlantis
atlas
Atlas cedar
Atlas Mountains
atlatl
Atli

WORDS THAT END LIKE ATLANTIC

antiromantic
authentic
Battle of the Atlantic
Corybantic
hierophantic
hyperromantic
mid-Atlantic
myomantic
North Atlantic
ornithomantic
postromantic
pyromantic
quantic
sciomantic
South Atlantic
the Atlantic
theomantic
ultraromantic
unpedantic
West Atlantic
xerantic

Synonyms and antonyms of Atlantic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Atlantic» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR
online translator

TRANSLATION OF ATLANTIC

Find out the translation of Atlantic to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Atlantic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Atlantic» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

大西洋
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Atlántico
570 millions of speakers

English

Atlantic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अटलांटिक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الأطلسي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Atlantic
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Atlântico
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আটলান্টিক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

atlantique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Atlantik
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Atlantik
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

大西洋
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

대서양
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Atlantik
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Đại Tây Dương
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அட்லாண்டிக்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अटलांटिक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Atlantik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Atlantico
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Atlantic
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Atlantic
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Atlantic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Ατλαντικού
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Atlantic
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Atlantic
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Atlantic
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Atlantic

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ATLANTIC»

The term «Atlantic» is very widely used and occupies the 6.025 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
0
100%
FREQUENCY
Very widely used
97
/100
The map shown above gives the frequency of use of the term «Atlantic» in the different countries.
Principal search tendencies and common uses of Atlantic
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «Atlantic».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ATLANTIC» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «Atlantic» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «Atlantic» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Atlantic

EXAMPLES

10 QUOTES WITH «ATLANTIC»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word Atlantic.
1
Mary Ritter Beard
Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else.
2
Madison Smartt Bell
I had a house in Haiti, in the hills above the North Atlantic coast. The house appeared as if out of a dream: my dream to have a foothold in the country. Like many concepts do in Haiti, the phrase 'pied a terre' became literal, material.
3
Gordon Bethune
Grounding airplanes to cover your butt would never have let Orville or Wilbur change the world. We would still be spending weeks to cross the Atlantic to do business in London.
4
Wesley Clark
For the United States to be a global leader, we have to have a very tight relationship with Europe. And we've held that relationship since 1949 when we established the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO. NATO is the bond. It's a security bond.
5
Nick Clooney
It is impossible to exaggerate the wide, and widening, gulf between the American attitude on the Iraq war and the view from our friends across the Atlantic.
6
Herbert Croly
Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.
7
David Crosby
When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - were run by people who loved records, people like Ahmet Ertegun, who ran Atlantic Records, who were record collectors. They got in it because they loved music.
8
Peter Davison
Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such.
9
Christopher Dawson
The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms.
10
Arthur Conan Doyle
From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ATLANTIC»

Discover the use of Atlantic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Atlantic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of ...
This book establishes Central Africa as the origin of most Africans brought to English and Dutch American colonies in North America, the Caribbean, and South America before 1660.
Linda M. Heywood, John K. Thornton, 2007
2
The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness
" Guardian Afrocentrism, Eurocentrism, Caribbean Studies. To the forces of cultural nationalism trapped in their respective camps, this bold book sounds like a liberating call.
Paul Gilroy, 1993
3
Across Atlantic Ice: The Origin of America's Clovis Culture
Supplying archaeological and oceanographic evidence to support this assertion, the book dismantles the old paradigm while persuasively linking Clovis technology with the culture of the Solutrean people who occupied France and Spain more ...
Dennis J. Stanford, Bruce A. Bradley, 2012
4
Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, and the ...
Drawing on the work of an astonishing array of literary and social theorists, including Walter Benjamin, Giovanni Arrighi, Jacques Derrida, and many others, he argues that the tragedy is central not only to the trans-Atlantic slave trade ...
Ian Baucom, 2005
5
Atlantic History: A Critical Appraisal
These original essays present a comprehensive and incisive look at how Atlantic history has been interpreted across time and through a variety of lenses from the fifteenth through the early nineteenth century.
Jack P. Greene, Philip D. Morgan, 2008
6
Slavery and the Rise of the Atlantic System
Placing slavery in the mainstream of modern history, the essays in this survey describe its transfer from the Old World and subsequent role in forging the interdependence of the economies bordering the Atlantic, as well as its effect on ...
Barbara L. Solow, 1993
7
Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World
Together, the migrants' stories offer a new social history of the seventeenth century. For the origins and integration of the English Atlantic world, Games illustrates the primary importance of the first half of the seventeenth century.
Alison Games, 1999
8
Revolutions in the Atlantic World: A Comparative History
Revolutions in the Atlantic World wields a comparative lens to reveal several central themes in the field of Atlantic history, from the concept of European empire and the murky position it occupied between the Old and New Worlds to slavery ...
Wim Klooster, 2009
9
The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census
Curtin combines modern research and statistical methods with his broad knowledge of the field to present the first book-length quantitative analysis of the Atlantic slave trade.
Philip D. Curtin, 1972
10
Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, ...
Author John Thornton examines the dynamics that made slaves so necessary to European colonizers. This new edition contains an added chapter on 18th-century developments.
John Thornton, 1998

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ATLANTIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Atlantic is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Atlantic City bets big on non-gambling attractions to halt decline, and …
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Atlantic City's efforts to recapture some of the tourism dollars it has lost to casino competition in recent years finally ... «Minneapolis Star Tribune, Jul 15»
2
14-year-old Vineland girl dies in ATV accident
Lopez was airlifted to the trauma unit at AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center, City Campus, in Atlantic City, State Police said. She was ... «Press of Atlantic City, Jul 15»
3
Officials Investigate Dune Fire Near Atlantic City Boardwalk
A fire broke out on the Atlantic City Boardwalk Saturday night. Check out this viewer video of the blaze. (Published Saturday, Jul 4, 2015). «NBC 10 Philadelphia, Jul 15»
4
Atlantic Beef Products sales down after Co-op buyout
The Atlantic Beef Products plant on P.E.I. is experiencing lower sales ... That wholesaler supplied about 50 Co-op Atlantic stores in the region ... «CBC.ca, Jul 15»
5
Traffic expert to recommend road plan to city for Delray's Atlantic
How to get visitors in and out of Atlantic Crossing, a planned 9-acre redevelopment project along East Atlantic Avenue, has caused a road ... «Sun Sentinel, Jul 15»
6
Corrugated packaging firm DiamondPak boosted after acquiring …
“We are also enhancing the offering for current Atlantic Box clients, to include speciality products such as internet peal and seal, high quality ... «WalesOnline, Jul 15»
7
Coral bleaching threat increasing in western Atlantic and Pacific …
As unusually warm ocean temperatures cover the north Pacific, equatorial Pacific, and western Atlantic oceans, NOAA scientists expect greater ... «NOAA, Jul 15»
8
Craft Atlantic Puts Modesty on Display, With Surprises
With all of that taken into account, the modesty on display at Craft Atlantic, which opened last year on Greenwich Avenue in the West Village ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
9
Senior events: Young at Heart group is Atlantic City bound
The group will sponsor trips to Resorts Casino in Atlantic City on Wednesdays: July 29, Aug. 26, and Sept. 30. Cost is $30; receive package of ... «NJ.com, Jul 15»
10
Fine French wines to mature in Atlantic Ocean
Numerous fine wines from Bordeaux and Burgundy have been lowered to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Brittany in western ... «The Local.fr, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Atlantic [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/atlantic>. Apr 2024 ».
Download the educalingo app
en
English dictionary
Discover all that is hidden in the words on
index
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z