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transalpine
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun transalpine has 1 sense
- transalpine(n = noun.person) Array - one living on or coming from the other side of the Alps from Italy; Array is a kind of foreigner, outsider
Derived form adjective transalpine1
Adjective transalpine has 1 sense
- transalpine(s = adj.all) ultramontane - on or relating to or characteristic of the region or peoples beyond the Alps from Italy (or north of the Alps); "ancient transalpine Gaul was an area northwest of the Alps and included modern France and Belgium"; "Cracow was a transalpine university" Derived form noun transalpine1
CIDE DICTIONARY
transalpine, a. [L. transalpinus; trans across, beyond + Alpinus Alpine, from Alpes the Alps: cf. F. transalpin.].
Being on the farther side of the Alps in regard to Rome, that is, on the north or west side of the Alps; of or pertaining to the region or the people beyond the Alps; as, transalpine Gaul; -- opposed to cisalpine . Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]
transalpine, n.
A native or inhabitant of a country beyond the Alps, that is, out of Italy. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
transalpine, adj. beyond the Alps, esp. from the Italian point of view.
Etymology
L transalpinus (as TRANS-, alpinus ALPINE)
ROGET THESAURUS
transalpine
Distance
N distance, space, remoteness, farness, far- cry to, longinquity, elongation, offing, background, remote region, removedness, parallax, reach, span, stride, outpost, outskirt, horizon, aphelion, foreign parts, ultima Thule, ne plus ultra, antipodes, long range, giant's stride, dispersion, length, cosmic distance, light-years, distant, far off, far away, remote, telescopic, distal, wide of, stretching to, yon, yonder, ulterior, transmarine, transpontine, transatlantic, transalpine, tramontane, ultramontane, ultramundane, hyperborean, antipodean, inaccessible, out of the way, unapproached, unapproachable, incontiguous, far off, far away, afar, afar off, off, away, a long way off, a great way off, a good way off, wide away, aloof, wide of, clear of, out of the way, out of reach, abroad, yonder, farther, further, beyond, outre mer, over the border, far and wide, over the hills and far away, from pole to pole, to the uttermost parts, to the ends of the earth, out of hearing, nobody knows where, a perte de vue, out of the sphere of, wide of the mark, a far cry to, apart, asunder, wide apart, wide asunder, longo intervallo, at arm's length, distance lends enchantment, it's a long long way to Tipperary, out of sight, out of mind.
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