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Definition of Mid-Atlantic
1. Adjective. Of a region of the United States generally including Delaware; Maryland; Virginia; and usually New York; Pennsylvania; New Jersey. "Mid-Atlantic states"
Definition of Mid-Atlantic
1. Proper noun. The middle of the East Coast of the United States. ¹
2. Proper noun. The middle of the Atlantic Ocean. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mid-Atlantic
Literary usage of Mid-Atlantic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... (Mid Atlantic), the sole habitat of the ск-V- presence of dugongs and the
absence of seals. ... Mid Atlantic ..."
2. Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society by Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society (1868)
"On Air from off the mid-Atlantic, and from some London Law Courts. By R.
ANGUS SMITH, Pn.D., FRS, &c., President. Bead February zoth, 1866. ..."
3. The Story of Nineteenth-century Science by Henry Smith Williams (1904)
"In the great majority of cases, for example, in the north-temperate zone, a
storm-centre (with WATERSPOUTS IN mid-Atlantic its attendant local whirl) ..."
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