transpontine

[ trans-pon-tin, -tahyn ]

adjective

across or beyond a bridge.
on the southern side of the Thames in London.

Origin of transpontine

1835–45; trans- + Latin pont- (stem of pōns) bridge + -ine¹

Words Nearby transpontine

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How to use transpontine in a sentence

And he strode along with the air of the heavy man in a transpontine melodrama.
Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks | Bracebridge Hemyng
He talked after a fashion of the characters in an early Victorian novel or a transpontine melodrama.
I Walked in Arden | Jack Crawford
Thou sawest thy America, thy lifetask, and didst charge to cover like the transpontine bison.
Ulysses | James Joyce
transpontine, trans-pon′tin, adj. situated across a bridge, esp.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) | Various
The arable infants seem to gravitate towards the transpontine districts south of the Thames.
Mystic London: | Charles Maurice Davies

British Dictionary definitions for transpontine

transpontine

/ (trænzˈpɒntaɪn) /

adjective

on or from the far side of a bridge
archaic on or from the south side of the Thames in London

Origin of transpontine

C19: trans- + -pontine, from Latin pōns bridge

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