transatlantically

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English

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Etymology

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From transatlantic +‎ -ally.

Adverb

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transatlantically (comparative more transatlantically, superlative most transatlantically)

  1. On the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.
    • 1926, Ford Madox Ford, A Man Could Stand Up— (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 562:
      Perhaps they had killed a lot of Yankees – to make themselves Trans-Atlantically popular.
    • 2008, Jessica Rae DeSpain, Steaming Across the Pond, page 3:
      All of the texts that were printed transatlantically before the Chace Act participated in this immense literary field, yet neither Casanova nor Bourdieu consider bookworkers as participants in this contested field.
    • 2011, Eve Tavor Bannett (Ed.), Emma Corbett, page 28:
      Indeed, the transatlantically accepted military code in this period demanded that officers conduct themselves with both honour and humanity […].