Transalpine

Word TRANSALPINE
Character 11
Hyphenation trans al pine
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Definitions and meanings of "Transalpine"

What do we mean by transalpine?

Relating to, living on, or coming from the other side of the Alps, especially as viewed from Italy. adjective

Being or situated beyond the Alps, especially from Rome: as, transalpine Gaul: opposed to cisalpine. Compare transmontane.

A native or an inhabitant of a country beyond the Alps, generally with reference to Rome. noun

Being on the farther side of the Alps in regard to Rome, that is, on the north or west side of the Alps; of or pertaining to the region or the people beyond the Alps; ; -- opposed to cisalpine. adjective

A native or inhabitant of a country beyond the Alps, that is, out of Italy. noun

On the other side of the Alps (with respect to Rome, therefore the north side). adjective

On or relating to or characteristic of the region or peoples beyond the Alps from Italy (or north of the Alps) adjective

One living on or coming from the other side of the Alps from Italy noun

On the other side of the Alps (with respect to Rome, therefore the north side).

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The word "transalpine" in example sentences

As for the cardinal, called the transalpine pope, and his Holiness, by ❋ Honor�� De Balzac (1824)

Sebastien Bozon/AFP/Getty Images A Chinese journalist took a photo of the 35 mile railway tunnel under construction in the Alps. The transalpine rail connection "is a key project for sustaining the long-term viability of both passenger and goods traffic," says Manfred Schellhammer, managing director of freight and logistics company Kuehne & Nagel International AG. ❋ Neil MacLucas (2010)

Substantial wreckovations very close to iconoclam are fare more widespread or omnipresent in transalpine countries like Germany and Austria. ❋ Unknown (2009)

With Science in the Kitchen, Italy emerged from under the gastronomic shadow of its transalpine neighbor. ❋ John Dickie (2008)

Or worse-one or more of the transalpine drunken troublemakers who habituated the sole drinking establishment of metropolitan Bug Jump, California? ❋ Foster, Alan Dean (2004)

In the seventeenth century Vasari's polemic was echoed in transalpine Europe, not only by specialist writers on the visual arts such as Sir Henry Wotton and Joachim von Sandrart, but also by poets such as ❋ WAYNE DYNES (1968)

The horses and armour of the Italian men at arms were reckoned superior to those of the transalpine nations against which they had measured themselves in France, during "the war of the public weal." ❋ Various (N/A)

Marseilles, that she was the first of Rome's transalpine colonies, and that under Tiberius her schools rivalled those of the Capital of the world. ❋ Elise Whitlock Rose (N/A)

There was much to captivate the imagination of the youthful Torquato in this wonderful city of the sea, then in the zenith of its fame, surpassing all the capitals of transalpine Europe in the extent of its commerce, in refinement of manners, and in the cultivation of learning and the arts. ❋ Hugh Macmillan (N/A)

Gothard, the initiative does, in fact, belong by good right to the powerful "Iron Chancellor," so we have never dreamed of robbing Germany of the glory (and it is a true glory) of having created the second of the great transalpine routes, that open to European products a new gate to the Oriental world. ❋ Various (N/A)

Only, I think, the Italian Futurists, their transalpine apes, a few revolutionaries on principle, but especially the Futurists with their electric-lit presentation of the more obvious peculiarities of contemporary life and their taste for popular actualities can be said definitely to have attempted a pictorial expression of Jazz. ❋ Clive Bell (1922)

Into Italy as into Greece had come, many centuries before, hordes of Indo-European migrants from the Danubian region who had carried into the South the wholesome family customs of the North, the very customs indeed out of which the transalpine literature of medieval chivalry later blossomed. ❋ Frank, Tenney, 1876-1939 (1922)

One of the most remarkable places, from an engineering and scenic point of view, is the Maltrata summit, and only in a few places in the world -- on the transandine or transalpine railways, or the Denver line -- is it equalled. ❋ Martin [Editor] Hume (1919)

When Gaston de Foix, Duke de Nemours, surnamed the Thunderbolt of Italy, died at the age of twenty-three after the victory of Ravenna, the French transalpine conquests were endangered. ❋ Bordeaux, Henry, 1870- (1918)

Gaston de Foix, Duke de Nemours, surnamed the Thunderbolt of Italy, died at the age of twenty-three after the victory of Ravenna, the French transalpine conquests were endangered. ❋ Henry Bordeaux (1916)

After the death of Bl. Clement, Venerable Passerat succeeded him as vicar-general over all the transalpine communities. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Money was necessary, and in order to obtain it funds had to be raised in other, and especially, transalpine lands, and by means which aroused much discontent and which affected the credit of Rome as the central court of ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The contrast between the fertility of Italian artistic genius and the comparative poverty of Northern Europe is most apparent when the northern painters copied most closely their transalpine brothers. ❋ Preserved Smith (1910)

Few lands were more open to German and Swiss influences than was their transalpine neighbor. ❋ Preserved Smith (1910)

What he most wishes is to be lifted to some higher platform, that he may see beyond his present fear the transalpine good, so that his fear, his coldness, his custom may be broken up like fragments of ice, melted and carried away in the great stream of good will. ❋ Unknown (1909)

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