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

Study said season is shifting earlier A study in 2022 co-authored by Klotzbach found that the Atlantic hurricane season was indeed shifting earlier. —Doyle Rice, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2025

In fact, gum arabic emerged as the only natural resource exported in large quantities from West Africa to Europe prior to the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade in the nineteenth century. —Erik Zou, JSTOR Daily, 25 Apr. 2025

Listen to this article President Trump agreed to sit for an interview with journalist Jeffrey Goldberg on Thursday despite his famous feud with the Atlantic editor who broke the story about top officials’ use of Signal chat to discuss U.S. attacks on the Houthis. —Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 24 Apr. 2025

The fish was engineered to grow in half the time of a wild Atlantic salmon and with one-third of the food. —Thomas Bostick, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 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