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# atlantic

«atlantic» in Mova's school dictionary: **the second largest ocean, lying between the Americas on…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective / proper noun (the Atlantic, the Atlantic Ocean — written with a capital A)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest ocean, lying between the Americas on the west and Europe and Africa on the east. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/atlantic/#m1)

2) As an adjective, to do with this ocean: "Atlantic salmon", "the Atlantic coast". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/atlantic/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography, the Atlantic separates North and South America from Europe and Africa; Ireland and the UK face it on the west. In history, sailors such as Columbus crossed the Atlantic in sailing ships. Phrases: the Atlantic Ocean, cross the Atlantic, Atlantic coast, North Atlantic, transatlantic.

### examples

- The Atlantic Ocean is between America and Europe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/atlantic/#x1)
- Ireland's west coast faces the Atlantic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/atlantic/#x2)
- We flew across the Atlantic to visit Grandma. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/atlantic/#x3)
- Atlantic salmon swim up rivers to lay eggs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/atlantic/#x4)
- The Titanic sank in the North Atlantic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/atlantic/#x5)
- Hurricanes often form over the warm Atlantic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/atlantic/#x6)
- That the others came from across the Atlantic is shown by the fact that it occurs in Ireland (Kennedy, Fictions, pp. 5-10) and Scotland (Campbell, No. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/atlantic/#x7)

### note

Always written with a capital A: Atlantic. Use "the": "the Atlantic". The largest ocean is the Pacific, not the Atlantic. "Transatlantic" means across the Atlantic. Do not confuse with "Atlantis", a made-up island in old stories.

### In the corpora

- [After Columbus crossed the Atlantic, plants and animals sailed both ways, and this swap is called the Columbian exchange.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe/2/)
- [After 1492 plants and animals crossed the Atlantic in both directions, which historians call the Columbian Exchange.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/26-food-and-farming-around-the-world/11/)
- [After 1500 the Mediterranean slowly became less central to world trade as Atlantic and ocean routes grew.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean/17/)
- [The Atlantic Ocean is a young ocean that started opening about 180 million years ago and is still widening.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/43-moving-continents-from-pangaea-to-today/11/)
- [The voyage across the Atlantic was called the Middle Passage; people were chained and crowded into ships for weeks, and many died.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «atlantic» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/atlantic/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.