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n. (object) | 1. atlantic, atlantic ocean | the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east. |
| ~ battle of trafalgar, trafalgar | a naval battle in 1805 off the southwest coast of Spain; the French and Spanish fleets were defeated by the English under Nelson (who was mortally wounded). |
| ~ bermuda, bermudas | a group of islands in the Atlantic off the Carolina coast; British colony; a popular resort. |
| ~ bermuda triangle | an area in the western Atlantic Ocean where many ships and planes are supposed to have been mysteriously lost. |
| ~ cape verde islands | a group of islands in the Atlantic off of the coast of Senegal. |
| ~ falkland islands | a group of over 100 islands in the southern Atlantic off the coast of Argentina; a British Crown Colony. |
| ~ the indies, west indies | the string of islands between North America and South America; a popular resort area. |
| ~ greenland, gronland, kalaallit nunaat | the largest island in the world; lies between the North Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean; a self-governing province of Denmark. |
| ~ newfoundland | an island in the north Atlantic. |
| ~ british isles | Great Britain and Ireland and adjacent islands in the north Atlantic. |
| ~ faeroe islands, faeroes, faroe islands, faroes | a group of 21 volcanic islands in the North Atlantic between Iceland and the Shetland Islands. |
| ~ iceland | a volcanic island in the North Atlantic near the Arctic Circle. |
| ~ orkney islands | an archipelago of about 70 islands in the North Atlantic and North Sea off the northeastern coast of Scotland. |
| ~ shetland, shetland islands, zetland | an archipelago of about 100 islands in the North Atlantic off the north coast of Scotland. |
| ~ democratic republic of sao tome and principe, sao thome e principe, sao tome and principe, sao tome e principe, st. thomas and principe | island nation in the South Atlantic off the west coast of Africa; achieved independence from Portugal in 1975; has enormous offshore oil reserves. |
| ~ tenerife | a Spanish island in the Atlantic off the northwestern coast of Africa; the largest of the Canary Islands. |
| ~ antarctic ocean | the southern waters surrounding Antarctica. |
| ~ atlantic coast | a coast of the Atlantic Ocean. |
| ~ bay of biscay | an arm of the Atlantic Ocean in western Europe; bordered by the west coast of France and the north coast of Spain. |
| ~ bay of fundy | a bay of the North Atlantic between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia; noted for rapid tides as great as 70 feet. |
| ~ biscayne bay | a narrow bay formed by an inlet from the Atlantic Ocean in southeastern Florida. |
| ~ bristol channel | an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean between southern Wales and southwestern England. |
| ~ buzzards bay | an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in southeastern Massachusetts. |
| ~ chesapeake bay | a large inlet of the North Atlantic between Virginia and Maryland; fed by Susquehanna River. |
| ~ delaware bay | an inlet of the North Atlantic; fed by the Delaware River. |
| ~ english channel | an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that forms a channel between France and Britain. |
| ~ galway bay | a bay of the North Atlantic on the west coast of Ireland. |
| ~ gulf of guinea | a gulf off the southwest coast of Africa. |
| ~ golfo de mexico, gulf of mexico | an arm of the Atlantic to the south of the United States and to the east of Mexico. |
| ~ gulf of saint lawrence, gulf of st. lawrence | an arm of the northwest Atlantic Ocean off the southeastern coast of Canada. |
| ~ labrador sea | an arm of the northern Atlantic between Labrador and southern Greenland. |
| ~ long island sound | a sound between Long Island and Connecticut. |
| ~ massachusetts bay | an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean off of eastern Massachusetts extending from Cape Ann on the north to Cape Cod on the south. |
| ~ mid-atlantic ridge | a very long narrow elevation on the ocean floor that runs all the way from Iceland in the North Atlantic to Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic. |
| ~ new york bay | a bay of the North Atlantic; fed by the Hudson River. |
| ~ north atlantic | that part of the Atlantic Ocean to the north of the equator. |
| ~ north sea | an arm of the North Atlantic between the British Isles and Scandinavia; oil was discovered under the North Sea in 1970. |
| ~ norwegian sea | the part of the Atlantic that lies off the Norwegian coast to the north of the North Sea. |
| ~ ocean | a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere. |
| ~ penobscot bay | an inlet of the Atlantic in eastern Maine. |
| ~ sargasso sea | a vast area of the North Atlantic from the West Indies to the Azores that is dense with gulfweed. |
| ~ south atlantic | that part of the Atlantic Ocean to the south of the equator. |
| ~ windward passage | a channel between eastern Cuba and western Haiti that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Caribbean Sea. |
adj. (pertain) | 2. atlantic | relating to or bordering the Atlantic Ocean.; "Atlantic currents" |
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