ATLANTIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Atlantic mean? 

• ATLANTIC (noun)
  The noun ATLANTIC has 1 sense:

1. the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east

  Familiarity information: ATLANTIC used as a noun is very rare.

• ATLANTIC (adjective)
  The adjective ATLANTIC has 1 sense:

1. relating to or bordering the Atlantic Ocean

  Familiarity information: ATLANTIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ATLANTIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Atlantic; Atlantic Ocean

Instance hypernyms:

ocean (a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere)

Meronyms (parts of "Atlantic"):

Mid-Atlantic Ridge (a very long narrow elevation on the ocean floor that runs all the way from Iceland in the North Atlantic to Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic)

Chesapeake Bay (a large inlet of the North Atlantic between Virginia and Maryland; fed by Susquehanna River)

Delaware Bay (an inlet of the North Atlantic; fed by the Delaware River)

English Channel (an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that forms a channel between France and Britain)

Galway Bay (a bay of the North Atlantic on the west coast of Ireland)

Gulf of Guinea (a gulf off the southwest coast of Africa)

Golfo de Mexico; Gulf of Mexico (an arm of the Atlantic to the south of the United States and to the east of Mexico)

Gulf of Saint Lawrence; Gulf of St. Lawrence (an arm of the northwest Atlantic Ocean off the southeastern coast of Canada)

Labrador Sea (an arm of the northern Atlantic between Labrador and southern Greenland)

Long Island Sound (a sound between Long Island and Connecticut)

Massachusetts Bay (an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean off of eastern Massachusetts extending from Cape Ann on the north to Cape Cod on the south)

Buzzards Bay (an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in southeastern Massachusetts)

New York Bay (a bay of the North Atlantic; fed by the Hudson River)

North Atlantic (that part of the Atlantic Ocean to the north of the equator)

North Sea (an arm of the North Atlantic between the British Isles and Scandinavia; oil was discovered under the North Sea in 1970)

Norwegian Sea (the part of the Atlantic that lies off the Norwegian coast to the north of the North Sea)

Penobscot Bay (an inlet of the Atlantic in eastern Maine)

Sargasso Sea (a vast area of the North Atlantic from the West Indies to the Azores that is dense with gulfweed)

South Atlantic (that part of the Atlantic Ocean to the south of the equator)

Windward Passage (a channel between eastern Cuba and western Haiti that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Caribbean Sea)

Orkney Islands (an archipelago of about 70 islands in the North Atlantic and North Sea off the northeastern coast of Scotland)

Bermuda; Bermudas (a group of islands in the Atlantic off the Carolina coast; British colony; a popular resort)

Bermuda Triangle (an area in the western Atlantic Ocean where many ships and planes are supposed to have been mysteriously lost)

Cape Verde Islands (a group of islands in the Atlantic off of the coast of Senegal)

Falkland Islands (a group of over 100 islands in the southern Atlantic off the coast of Argentina; a British Crown Colony)

the Indies; West Indies (the string of islands between North America and South America; a popular resort area)

Greenland; Gronland; Kalaallit Nunaat (the largest island in the world; lies between the North Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean; a self-governing province of Denmark)

Newfoundland (an island in the north Atlantic)

British Isles (Great Britain and Ireland and adjacent islands in the north Atlantic)

Faeroe Islands; Faeroes; Faroe Islands; Faroes (a group of 21 volcanic islands in the North Atlantic between Iceland and the Shetland Islands)

Iceland (a volcanic island in the North Atlantic near the Arctic Circle)

Shetland; Shetland Islands; Zetland (an archipelago of about 100 islands in the North Atlantic off the north coast of Scotland)

Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe; Sao Thome e Principe; Sao Tome and Principe; Sao Tome e Principe; St. Thomas and Principe (island nation in the South Atlantic off the west coast of Africa; achieved independence from Portugal in 1975; has enormous offshore oil reserves)

Tenerife (a Spanish island in the Atlantic off the northwestern coast of Africa; the largest of the Canary Islands)

Antarctic Ocean (the southern waters surrounding Antarctica)

Atlantic Coast (a coast of the Atlantic Ocean)

Bay of Biscay (an arm of the Atlantic Ocean in western Europe; bordered by the west coast of France and the north coast of Spain)

Bay of Fundy (a bay of the North Atlantic between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia; noted for rapid tides as great as 70 feet)

Biscayne Bay (a narrow bay formed by an inlet from the Atlantic Ocean in southeastern Florida)

Bristol Channel (an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean between southern Wales and southwestern England)

Domain member region:

battle of Trafalgar; Trafalgar (a naval battle in 1805 off the southwest coast of Spain; the French and Spanish fleets were defeated by the English under Nelson (who was mortally wounded))

Derivation:

Atlantic (relating to or bordering the Atlantic Ocean)

• ATLANTIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to or bordering the Atlantic Ocean

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

Atlantic currents

Pertainym:

Atlantic (the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east)

Derivation:

Atlantic (the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east)

 Context examples 

The South Atlantic is inhabited by 51 species of cetaceans.

(Brazil to support South Atlantic whale sanctuary bid, Agência BRASIL)

A country in western Europe, occupying five-sixths of the island of Ireland in the North Atlantic Ocean, west of Great Britain.

(Ireland, NCI Thesaurus)

An island between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, about one-half of the way from Puerto Rico to Trinidad and Tobago.

(Dominica, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

I think, Miss Price, we would have indulged ourselves with a week's calm in the Atlantic at that season.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Ceasefire policies might be beneficial for Amazonia and the Atlantic Forest but not for El Cerrado.

(Fire control harms biodiversity in Brazilian savannah, SciDev.Net)

The deforestation of the Atlantic Forest, Brazil's second most important forest, grew 57.7% in a year, from 2015 to 2016, when the biome lost 29,075 hectares, or 29 thousand football fields.

(Brazilian Atlantic Forest deforestation up nearly 60% in a year, Agência Brasil)

An island between the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean, south of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and north of Trinidad and Tobago.

(Grenada, NCI Thesaurus)

The team collected more than 400 water samples from 60 coral reef sites across the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

(Too much algae and too many microbes threaten coral reefs, NSF)

A country in northern Europe, island between the Greenland Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, northwest of the UK.

(Iceland, NCI Thesaurus)

About 30 million years ago, a disturbance in the transition zone caused an upwelling of magma material to rise to the surface, forming a now-dormant volcano under the Atlantic Ocean, then forming Bermuda.

(Scientists discover a new way volcanoes form, NSF)