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Atlantic
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English
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Alternative forms
en Atlantick obsolete
Etymology
en :inh enm:Atlantyke +
en ine-pro *telh₂- (bear)
From en enm Atlantyke, from en la ā̆tlanticus Ā̆tlanticus, from en grc Ἀτλαντικός Atlantean, of Atlas, from en grc Ἄτλᾱς, either from grc ἁ- copulative prefix + en ine-pro *telh₂- bear, undergo, endure or of en qsb-grc - origin.
Pronunciation
ət-lăn'tĭk
en /ətˈlæn.tɪk/ RP
en /ətˈlan.tɪk/ SSB,Northern England,Scotland,Wales
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Atlantic.wav Southern England
ăt-lăn'tĭk GA
en /ætˈlæn.tɪk/ /ætˈlæn.ɪk/ [ætˈlæɾ̃.ɪk]
en æntɪk 3
Proper noun
the Atlantic
The Atlantic Ocean.
en 3 September 2026 James Gregory More than 80 migrants feared dead after boat rescued off Canary Islands https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c33kzv7kly4o BBC News Fernando Clavijo, head of the Canary Islands government, posted on X: "It is intolerable that lives continue to be lost. The Canaries cannot get used to or accept as normal the fact that the Atlantic continues to be a death trap." 3 September 2026 https://web.archive.org/web/20261002234449/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c33kzv7kly4o 2 October 2026
A phase of the Holocene epoch in the Blytt–Sernander system, extending from approximately 8,000 to 5,000 years before present.
Proper noun
A branch of the Niger-Congo languages spoken along the Atlantic coast in West Africa.
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Derived terms
en Atlantic Standard Time Zone amphiatlantic Atlantic City Atlantic County Atlantic croaker Atlantic Daylight Time Atlantic Flyway Atlantic ghost crab Atlantic Highlands Atlantic hookear sculpin Atlantic humpback dolphin Atlantic silverside Atlantic sixgill shark Atlantic sturgeon Atlantic tarpon Atlantic Time Atlantic trumpetfish Atlantic Wall circum-Atlantic East Atlantic peacock wrasse Euro-Atlantic Graveyard of the Atlantic Mid-Atlantic North Atlantic Treaty Organisation,North Atlantic Treaty Organization Subatlantic trans-Atlantic,transatlantic West Atlantic trumpetfish
Translations
Atlantic Ocean
Adjective
-
Pertaining to the Atlantic Ocean.
en 3 September 2026 James Gregory More than 80 migrants feared dead after boat rescued off Canary Islands https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c33kzv7kly4o BBC News The Atlantic route from West Africa to the Canary Islands is one of the world's deadliest migration crossings. 3 September 2026 https://web.archive.org/web/20261002234449/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c33kzv7kly4o 2 October 2026
Pertaining to locations adjacent to or in the vicinity of the Atlantic Ocean, such as the British Isles in Northwestern Europe, or the eastern seaboard of the United States.
Pertaining to the legendary island of Atlantis.
Pertaining to the Atlantic language family.
Descended from the legendary Atlas.
9 The Seav'n Atlantick sisters. 1873
Derived terms
en Atlantic diet
Atlantic surf clam
Descendants
cy Atlantig 1, cy Atlantaidd 1
Translations
pertaining to the Atlantic Ocean
Antillean Creole: gcf atlantik
Arabic: ar أَطْلَسِيّ
Asturian: ast atlánticu
Belarusian: be атланты́чны
Catalan: ca atlàntic
Cornish: kw Atlantek
Czech: cs atlantský
Danish: da atlantisk
Dutch: nl Atlantisch
Esperanto: eo atlantika
Finnish: fi Atlantti Atlantin genitive, fi atlanttinen
French: fr atlantique
Galician: gl atlántico
German: de atlantisch
Hungarian: hu atlanti
Irish: ga Atlantach
Italian: it atlantico
Latvian: lv atlantisks
Marshallese: mh Atļaņtiik
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb atlantisk
Nynorsk: nn atlantisk
Occitan: oc atlantic
Polish: pl atlantycki
Portuguese: pt atlântico
Romanian: ro atlantic
Russian: ru атланти́ческий
Slovak: sk atlantický
Spanish: es atlántico
Ukrainian: uk атланти́чний
Welsh: cy Iwerydd (adjectival noun), cy Atlantaidd, cy Atlantig
Yiddish: yi אַטלאַנטיש
Noun
en rail A steam locomotive of the 4-4-2 wheel arrangement. 4-4-2 (locomotive)
en 1944 January and February 'Voyageur' Atlantic Locomotives on the G.W.R. Railway Magazine 26 It is equally curious that whereas the first Swindon-built Atlantic began its career as a 4-6-0, the first Great Western 4-cylinder 4-6-0 began its career as an Atlantic.
en 1952 December R. S. McNaught The Voice of the Locomotive Railway Magazine 839 Where these Atlantics fell from acoustic grace, however, was in their feeble screechy little whistle, so different from the N.B.R. mellow standard pattern.
en 1958 June The Last British Atlantic Railway Magazine 383 A chapter of locomotive history was closed on Sunday, April 13, when the last Atlantic tender locomotive to remain in service on British Railways, No. 32424, Beachy Head, ended its working life of more than 46 years.
Anagrams
en aacilntt tantalic