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transalpine

DEFINITIONS OF: transalpine

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adj on or relating to or characteristic of the region or peoples beyond the Alps from Italy (or north of the Alps)

“ancient transalpine Gaul was an area northwest of the Alps and included modern France and Belgium”
“Cracow was a transalpine university”
Synonyms:
ultramontane
tramontane, transmontane
on or coming from the other side of the mountains (from the speaker)

n one living on or coming from the other side of the Alps from Italy

Type of:
foreigner, outsider
someone who is excluded from or is not a member of a group
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