transpontine

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
18
Letters
12

Definition of transpontine

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Of, relating to, or situated on the far side of a bridge.
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adj

  1. (not-comparable)Of, relating to, or situated on the far side of a bridge.
  2. (not-comparable)Of, relating to, or situated on the far side of a sea.
    “he may beget upon her Children worthy of ſome Transpontine Monarchy”
    “Other young women in Paris — in the little tight transpontine world of art-study […]”
  3. (historical, not-comparable)Relating to the sensational melodramas presented on the south side of the Thames in the 19th century or earlier.
    “Blood and thunder melodrama was once transpontine: it is now cispontine. It has crossed the Thames, and come over the bridges.”

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Etymology

From trans- + pontine.

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