transpontine

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adjective

Of, relating to, or situated on the far side of a bridge.

Opposite
cispontine
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Meanings

adjectivetranspontine (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOf, relating to, or situated on the far side of a bridge.

    Antonyms: cispontine

  2. not comparableOf, relating to, or situated on the far side of a sea.

    he may beget upon her Children worthy of ſome Transpontine Monarchy

    1748, François Rabelais, translated by Jacob Le Duchat, Gargantua and Pantagruel, page III.31
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    Other young women in Paris — in the little tight transpontine world of art-study […]

    1901, Henry James, Flickerbridge
  3. historicalnot comparableentertainmentRelating 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.

    1882, The Theatre: A Monthly Review and Magazine, page 35

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveOf, relating to, or situated on the far side of a bridge.

Opposite
cispontine

Origin

From trans- + pontine.

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APA

transpontine. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/transpontine

MLA

“transpontine.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/transpontine. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “transpontine,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/transpontine.

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