Transalpine Definition

trăns-ălpīn, trănz-
adjective
On the other (the northern) side of the Alps, from the viewpoint of Rome as the seat of the Roman Empire.
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noun

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

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Other Word Forms of Transalpine

Noun

Singular:
transalpine
Plural:
transalpines

Transalpine Sentence Examples

  • The Rocky Mountains, which give its charm to Alberta, are ascended by a gradual approach from the east, but are exceedingly abrupt on their transalpine slope in British Columbia.

  • Caesar secured the passing of a legislative enactment conferring upon himself the government of Cisalpine Gaul and Illyria for five years, and exacted from the terrorized senate the addition of Transalpine Gaul, where, as he well knew, a storm was brewing which threatened to sweep away Roman civilization beyond the Alps.

  • The one he called his Transalpine, the other his Cisalpine Parnassus.

  • The revolutionary movement of 1848 extended from the Rumans of Hungary and Transylvania to their kinsmen of the Transalpine regions.

  • All hopes of conquest on the transalpine side were now quenched; but the keys of Italy had been given to the dukes of Savoy; and their attention was still further concentrated upon Lombard conquests.

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Words Starting With

TTRTRA

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ENEINE

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