Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Tramontane.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Across or beyond a mountain or mountains.
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- adjective Of or relating to the
other side of themountains .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective on or coming from the other side of the mountains (from the speaker)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In that lond, ne in many othere bezonde that, no man may see the sterre transmontane, that is clept the sterre of the see, that is unmevable, and that is toward the northe, that we clepen the lode sterre.
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In that lond, ne in many othere bezonde that, no man may see the sterre transmontane, that is clept the sterre of the see, that is unmevable, and that is toward the northe, that we clepen the lode sterre.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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In that lond, ne in many othere bezonde that, no man may see the sterre transmontane, that is clept the sterre of the see, that is unmevable, and that is toward the northe, that we clepen the lode sterre.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Although cultivation has a general upper limit of about 2,100 meters on slopes exposed to monsoons, people farm crops such as barley, potato and buckwheat at high elevations in the inner valleys and transmontane regions, and in some areas, such as Jumla, Kashmir, Lahoul, and Ladakh, there are major agriculturally based population centers well above this elevation.
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Antartyk, thei ben streghte, feet azen feet of hem, that dwellen undre the transmontane; als wel as wee and thei that dwellyn undre us, ben feet azenst feet.
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Antartyk, thei ben streghte, feet azen feet of hem, that dwellen undre the transmontane; als wel as wee and thei that dwellyn undre us, ben feet azenst feet.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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There is a pretty Protestant Church in 1820 Gothic on one side of the square and a vast, unfinished Catholic cathedral opposite it, conceived in that irresponsible medley of architectural orders that is so dear to the hearts of transmontane pietists.
The Complete Stories Waugh, Evelyn 1998
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After relating their regard for women, the discourses of their old men, and their wars against a transmontane people, Montaigne comes to their cannibalism.
PRIMITIVISM GEORGE BOAS 1968
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The lands in the transmontane country had risen to a value of only fifteen million dollars less than the cash value of the lands east of the Blue
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The transmontane people, the people of the Valley and some of those of the Piedmont were arrayed against the aristocratic land owners of the
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