atlantic

1. not comparablerareOf or pertaining to the atlas, the uppermost vertebra in the spinal columns of humans and some other animals.

   Synonyms: atlanto-, atlo-

alternative obsolete Atlantick

1. The Atlantic Ocean.

   Fernando Clavijo, head of the Canary Islands government, posted on X: "It is intolerable that lives continue to be lost. The Canaries cannot get used to or accept as normal the fact that the Atlantic continues to be a death trap."

   2026 September 3, James Gregory, “More than 80 migrants feared dead after boat rescued off Canary Islands”, in BBC News, retrieved 03 Sep 2026

2. A phase of the Holocene epoch in the Blytt–Sernander system, extending from approximately 8,000 to 5,000 years before present.

alternative obsolete Atlantick

1. A branch of the Niger-Congo languages spoken along the Atlantic coast in West Africa.
2. A city, the county seat of Cass County, Iowa, United States.

alternative obsolete Atlantick

1. not comparablePertaining to the Atlantic Ocean.

   The Atlantic route from West Africa to the Canary Islands is one of the world's deadliest migration crossings.

   2026 September 3, James Gregory, “More than 80 migrants feared dead after boat rescued off Canary Islands”, in BBC News, retrieved 03 Sep 2026

2. not comparablePertaining to locations adjacent to or in the vicinity of the Atlantic Ocean, such as the British Isles in Northwestern Europe, or the eastern seaboard of the United States.
3. not comparablePertaining to the legendary island of Atlantis.
4. not comparablePertaining to the Atlantic language family.
5. not comparableDescended from the legendary Atlas.

   The Seav'n Atlantick sisters.

   1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC

plural Atlantics · alternative obsolete Atlantick

1. rail transportA steam locomotive of the 4-4-2 wheel arrangement.

   Where these Atlantics fell from acoustic grace, however, was in their feeble screechy little whistle, so different from the N.B.R. mellow standard pattern.

   1952 December, R. S. McNaught, “The Voice of the Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, page 839

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   It is equally curious that whereas the first Swindon-built Atlantic began its career as a 4-6-0, the first Great Western 4-cylinder 4-6-0 began its career as an Atlantic.

   1944 January and February, 'Voyageur', “Atlantic Locomotives on the G.W.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 26

   A chapter of locomotive history was closed on Sunday, April 13, when the last Atlantic tender locomotive to remain in service on British Railways, No. 32424, Beachy Head, ended its working life of more than 46 years.

   1958 June 28, “The Last British Atlantic”, in Railway Magazine, page 383