1. Passing or extending across the Atlantic Ocean.
1779. Wilkes, Corr. (1805), V. 212. After a long fruitless trans-atlantic voyage.
1892. Chambers’ Encycl., IX. 403/2. In 1839. Mr. Samuel Cunard … came over to England from Halifax, determined to establish … a line of transatlantic steamships.
1895. N. Amer. Rev., Nov., 514. Or the utmost importance to all transatlantic travellers.
2. Situated or resident in, or pertaining to a region beyond the Atlantic; chiefly in European use: = American.
1782. T. Jefferson, Writ. & Corr. (1894), III. 193. To suggest a doubt … whether nature has enlisted herself as a cis- or trans-Atlantic partisan.
1782. Sir W. Jones, in Mem., etc. (1804), 217. The sturdy transatlantic yeomanry, will neither be dragooned nor bamboozled out of their liberty.
1807. W. Irving, Salmag., xii. (1824), 199. His hat had the true trans-Atlantic declination towards his right ear.
1812. Gen. Hist., in Ann. Reg., 161/2. The civil war kindled in those regions between the native and transatlantic Spaniards.
1891. Harper’s Weekly, 19 Sept., 705/1. Salem had an aristocracy. The aristocrats were proud of their transatlantic ancestries.
B. sb. (absol. use of adj.): One who or that which is across the Atlantic; a native or inhabitant of a transatlantic country; spec. an American; also short for ‘transatlantic steamer.’
1826. Blackw. Mag., Aug., 325/1. The Trans-Atlantics may hope to have some future share of European civilization.
1831. Scott, Jrnl. (1890), II. 402. Count Robert, who is progressing, as the Transatlantics say, at a very slow pace indeed.
1883. Contemp. Rev., Aug., 227. A bed in a sleeping-carriage or a berth in a transatlantic.
1892. Pall Mall G., 17 Aug., 2/3. Cork, Killarney, and Dublin are this year crowded with transatlantics.
Hence Transatlantically adv., in a transatlantic or American manner; in quot. 1846, across or while crossing the Atlantic; Transatlantican, Transatlantician = TRANSATLANTIC B.; Transatlanticism, transatlantic character, nationality, or behavior; a transatlantic or American idiom.
1846. Blackw. Mag., April, 501/1. [He] might, at that moment, be *transatlantically regaling himself at my particular expense.
1885. Athenæum, 3 Jan., 10/2. She … had what is Transatlantically called ‘a good time.’
1908. Sat. Rev., 25 July, 120/1. It is transatlantically epigrammatic without being transatlantically smart.
1897. Harper’s Mag., April, 724. English attentions to *transatlanticans savor either of patronage or servility.
1839. Fraser’s Mag., XIX. 467. What has a *Transatlantician to do with European squabbles?
1907. Daily Chron., 16 Sept., 4/4. Trans-Atlanticians … are those who cross between New York and Liverpool or Southampton at least once a year.
1858. Motley, Corr., 6 June. The portentous aspect on the commonest occasions … which is apt to characterise *transatlanticism.
1895. Pall Mall G., 17 Oct., 4/1. The phrase … is only one more trans-Atlanticism.
