Transpontine
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Transpontine is an adjective meaning Of, relating to, or situated on the far side of a bridge.
Meaning
Of, relating to, or situated on the far side of a bridge.
More Meanings
- Of, relating to, or situated on the far side of a sea.
- (theater, historical) Relating to the sensational melodramas presented on the south side of the Thames in the 19th century or earlier.
Example Sentences
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 […]
Blood and thunder melodrama was once transpontine: it is now cispontine. It has crossed the Thames, and come over the bridges.
Antonyms for transpontine
Common opposites include cispontine.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include melodrama, cispontine, transpacific, transmarine, transpecific, extrapontine.
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