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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

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

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Being or situated beyond the Alps, especially from Rome: as, transalpine Gaul: opposed to cisalpine. Compare transmontane.
  • noun A native or an inhabitant of a country beyond the Alps, generally with reference to Rome.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

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

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

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective on or relating to or characteristic of the region or peoples beyond the Alps from Italy (or north of the Alps)
  • noun one living on or coming from the other side of the Alps from Italy

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Examples

  • As for the cardinal, called the transalpine pope, and his Holiness, by

    Catherine De Medici 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.

    Tunnel Meeting Marks Breakthrough for Transalpine Rail Transit Neil MacLucas 2010

  • Substantial wreckovations very close to iconoclam are fare more widespread or omnipresent in transalpine countries like Germany and Austria.

    The stripping of the altars... in 2009 2009

  • With Science in the Kitchen, Italy emerged from under the gastronomic shadow of its transalpine neighbor.

    Delizia! John Dickie 2008

  • Or worse-one or more of the transalpine drunken troublemakers who habituated the sole drinking establishment of metropolitan Bug Jump, California?

    Lost And Found 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

    CONCEPT OF GOTHIC 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."

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 535, February 25, 1832 Various

  • 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.

    Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 Elise Whitlock Rose

  • 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.

    Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan

  • 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.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882 Various

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