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CISMONTANE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cismontane mean?
• CISMONTANE (adjective)
The adjective CISMONTANE has 1 sense:
1. on this (the speaker's) side of the mountains
Familiarity information: CISMONTANE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
On this (the speaker's) side of the mountains
Context example:
a contest in Virginia between a cismontane and a tramontane people
Similar:
cisalpine; ultramontane (on the Italian or Roman side of the Alps)
Antonym:
tramontane (on or coming from the other side of the mountains (from the speaker))
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