Atlantic

adjective

At·​lan·​tic ət-ˈlan-tik 

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1

a

: of, relating to, or found in, on, or near the Atlantic Ocean

b

: of, relating to, or found on or near the east coast of the U.S.

2

: of or relating to the nations that border the Atlantic Ocean

the Atlantic community

Examples of Atlantic in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Leaders in Congress agreed and sent out armadas of patriot privateers to do just that, plundering British shipping around the Atlantic rim and forcing Royal Navy warships to redeploy to convoy duty. —Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025

For example, an Atlantic storm that ripped the mast off a boat named Antje would become known as Antje's hurricane. —Mason Leath, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2025

With peak sustained winds of 185-mph, Melissa became one of the two strongest Atlantic storms on record to make landfall, according to the preliminary data. —Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 2 Nov. 2025

Hurricane Melissa left swaths of destruction across the northern Caribbean as one of the strongest Atlantic storms on record. —Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 31 Oct. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1594, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Phrases Containing Atlantic

• Atlantic croaker
• Atlantic puffin
• Atlantic salmon
• Atlantic time
• Atlantic white cedar
• mid-Atlantic
• Middle Atlantic
• North Atlantic Oscillation

Rhymes for Atlantic

• gigantic
• pedantic
• romantic
• semantic
• vedantic
• antic
• frantic
• transatlantic
• unromantic