Meanings
- not comparableSurrounding the Atlantic Ocean or relating to the regions surrounding it.
[...] the Portuguese exploration of the circum-Atlantic world was presented as an example of the process of European expansion.
1989, Meridian, page 952 more examples
Equiano, who describes himself as having been born in Africa and sold into slavery as a young boy, eventually purchases his freedom and inhabits the circum-Atlantic world as sailor, hairdresser, and plantation overseer.
1974, Amerikastudien, page 237The circum-Atlantic alliance of Americans, Europeans, and enslaved or manumitted Africans for whom emancipation and abolition were the crucial political issues of the time knew it.
2005, Specters of the Atlantic, page 227
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French circumatlantique
- circumatlantiqueTranslations
Italian circumatlantico
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circum-Atlantic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/circum-Atlantic
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