mid-Atlantic

adjective

1

: of or relating to the region of the U.S. that includes all or some of the states between New York and South Carolina

mid-Atlantic states/cities/beaches

2

: located in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean

mid-Atlantic islands

Examples of mid-Atlantic in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Storms across the nation's eastern half forced airlines to cancel roughly 4,000 flights nationwide Monday, and many schools closed early in the mid-Atlantic states, where high winds and tornadoes were in the forecast for the evening. —Arkansas Online, 17 Mar. 2026

The region at greatest risk for damaging straight-line winds of more than 75 mph and tornadoes was the mid-Atlantic, specifically from northern South Carolina to southern Maryland. —Kathryn Prociv, NBC news, 16 Mar. 2026

El Nino typically increases the odds of above-average snowfall in the southern Rockies, south-central Plains, mid-Atlantic and coastal areas of the Northeast with below-average snowfall favored in the northern Rockies, northern Plains and Great Lakes regions. —Dan Peck, ABC News, 14 Mar. 2026

For example, mid-Atlantic gardeners should usually wait until after Mother’s Day. —Bestreviews, Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2026

Rhymes for mid-Atlantic

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