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Definition: Tramontane |
TramontaneAdjective1. On or coming from the other side of the mountains (from the the speaker); "the transmontane section of the state"; "tramontane winds". 2. Being or coming from another country; "tramontane influences". Noun1. A cold dry wind that blows south out of the mountains into Italy and the western Mediterranean. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tramontane" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Geography | A cold wind from the northeast or north. . . squally or tempestuous, dry. . . it. . lasts. . 8 to 12 days, mainly in winter and early spring; it rises to a peak at midday and weakens at night. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: TramontaneSynonyms: transmontane (adj), tramontana (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: cismontane (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Distance | Adjective: distant; far off, far away; remote, telescopic, distal, wide of; stretching to; Verb: yon, yonder; ulterior; transmarine, transpontine, transatlantic, transalpine; tramontane; ultramontane, ultramundane; hyperborean, antipodean; inaccessible, out of the way; unapproached, unapproachable; incontiguous. |
Extraneousness | Adjective: extraneous, foreign, alien, ulterior; tramontane, ultramontane. |
Vulgarity | Unclassical, doggerel, heathenish, tramontane, outlandish; uncultivated; Bohemian. |
Wind | Gust, blast, squall, gale, half a gale, storm, tempest, hurricane, whirlwind, tornado, samiel, cyclone, anticyclone, typhoon; simoon, simoom; harmattan, monsoon, trade wind, sirocco, mistral, bise, tramontane, levanter; capful of wind; fresh breeze, stiff breeze; keen blast; blizzard, barber, candelia, chinook, foehn, khamsin, norther, vendaval, wuther. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Tramontane |
| English words defined with "tramontane": cismontane. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tramontane": Ultramontane Party. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "tramontane": tramontana. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Tramontane" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (borealis, tramontane). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Tramontane (1999) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tramontane | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "tramontane"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | transalpin, i përtej malit, i huaj (alien, exotic, extern, external, extraneous, foreign, foreigner, gringo, interlude, outlandish, outside, oversea, overseas, peregrine, strange, stranger). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نجمة القطب, جهة الشمال. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | чуждестранен (alien, exotic, external, foreign, outlandish, Peregrin, strange), чужденец (foreigner, stranger, transalpine, wog), намиращ се отвъд алпите (transalpine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tramontane (tramontana). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | βάρβαροσ (barbarian, barbarous, bestial), ξένοσ (extraneous, extrinsic, foreign, foreigner, gringo, outlander, outsider, strange, stranger), πέραν των ορεών (ultramontane), υπερόριοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | északi szél. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | amontanetray transmontano, transalpino (transalpine), estrangeiro (abroad, alien, continental, exotic, foreign, foreigner, gringo, outlandish, oversea, peregrine, strange, stranger), bárbaro (barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, brute, bumbling, cloddish, cruel, fell, larrikin, lawless, low-lived, ruffianly, truculent, uncivilized, uncouth, wild). (various references) заальпийский, иностранный (alien, exterior, external, foreign). (various references) tramontana. (various references) yabancı (alien, exotic, foreign, foreigner, gook, gringo, outlandish, outsider, peregrine, strange, stranger, unfamiliar, unknown, xeno), dağların ardındaki, dağları aşıp gelen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tramontane": tramontanes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "tramontane": ultramontane. (additional references) | |
Words containing "tramontane": ultramontanes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-m-n-n-o-r-t-t" | |
-2 letters: amaretto, annotate, emanator, ornament, teratoma. | |
-3 letters: annatto, arnatto, entrant, moneran, montane, nonmeat, ramenta, remnant, tannate, tomenta, tonearm, torment. | |
-4 letters: anatto, aortae, atoner, attorn, enamor, manner, mantra, marten, matron, matter, mentor, moaner, natant, natron, natter, nonart, notate, omenta, ornate, ramate, rattan, ratten, ratton, rotate, rotten, tanner, tantra, tartan, tenant, tonner, torten. | |
-5 letters: ament, amort, anear. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-m-n-n-o-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: tramontanes. | |
+2 letters: transmontane, ultramontane. | |
+3 letters: argumentation, fragmentation, ornamentation, recontaminate, terminational, ultramontanes. | |
+4 letters: argumentations, decontaminator, fragmentations, interanimation, monounsaturate, neuroanatomist, ornamentations, recontaminated, recontaminates, reimplantation. | |
+5 letters: antiferromagnet, decontaminators, demonstrational, interanimations, monounsaturated, monounsaturates, neuroanatomists, nondepartmental, nonmatriculated, preimplantation, recontaminating, recontamination, reimplantations. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 72 61 6D 6F 6E 74 61 6E 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .-. .- -- --- -. - .- -. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01110010 01100001 01101101 01101111 01101110 01110100 01100001 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T r a m o n t a n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0072 0061 006D 006F 006E 0074 0061 006E 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54846779818086678071 |
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