CISMONTANE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

On this (the speaker's) side of the mountains

Example:

a contest in Virginia between a cismontane and a tramontane people

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

cisalpine; ultramontane (on the Italian or Roman side of the Alps)

Antonym:

tramontane (on or coming from the other side of the mountains (from the speaker))

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