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

Now, 38 million people are under winter alerts across the Southeast and the mid-Atlantic, including winter storm warnings for parts of North Carolina and South Carolina, and a winter weather advisory for Atlanta. —Isabel Yip, NBC news, 30 Jan. 2026

States from Texas through the mid-Atlantic (including my own state of Pennsylvania) and New England are bracing for heavy snow, freezing rain, dangerous ice, and extreme cold. —Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026

Winter Storm Fern, which began Friday and is expected to last through at least Monday, is forecast to impact more than half of the United States, including the southern Rockies, Northeast and the southern mid-Atlantic. —Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2026

The storm is part of a major, widespread winter system that's likely to spread damaging ice and heavy snow across several southern states, like Texas and Oklahoma, into the Carolinas and mid-Atlantic states. —Cheyenne Derksen, Oklahoman, 23 Jan. 2026

Rhymes for mid-Atlantic

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