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Definition of Atlantic
Atlantic

Of or pertaining to Mt. Atlas in Libya, and hence applied to the ocean which lies between Europe and Africa on the east and America on the west; as, the Atlantic Ocean (called also the Atlantic); the Atlantic basin; the Atlantic telegraph.

Of or pertaining to the isle of Atlantis.

Descended from Atlas.

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Atlantic Quotations

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
Winston Churchill

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
H. L. Mencken

Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such.
Peter Davison

If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.
Theodor Adorno

The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms.
Christopher Dawson

Atlantic Translations

Atlantic in Afrikaans is Atlanties, Atlantiese Oseaan
Atlantic in Danish is atlantisk
Atlantic in Dutch is Atlantische Oceaan
Atlantic in Finnish is Atlantti
atlantic in German is atlantisch

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