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trans·al·pine

(trăns-ăl′pīn′, trănz-)
adj.
Relating to, living on, or coming from the other side of the Alps, especially as viewed from Italy.
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transalpine

(trænzˈælpaɪn)
adj (prenominal)
1. (Physical Geography) situated in or relating to places beyond the Alps, esp from Italy
2. passing over the Alps
n
a transalpine person
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trans•al•pine

(trænsˈæl paɪn, -pɪn, trænz-)

adj.
1. situated beyond the Alps, esp. toward the north as viewed from Italy.
2. passing or extending across or through the Alps: a transalpine railway.
[1580–90; < Latin trānsalpīnus=trāns- trans- + Alp(ēs) the Alps + -īnus -ine 1]
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Noun 1. [画像:transalpine - one living on or coming from the other side of the Alps from Italy]transalpine - one living on or coming from the other side of the Alps from Italy
outsider, foreigner - someone who is excluded from or is not a member of a group
Adj. 1. [画像:transalpine - on or relating to or characteristic of the region or peoples beyond the Alps from Italy (or north of the Alps)]transalpine - 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"
tramontane, transmontane - on or coming from the other side of the mountains (from the speaker); "the transmontane section of the state"; "tramontane winds"
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transalpine

[ˈtrænzˈælpaɪn] ADJtransalpino
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transalpine

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What he most wishes is to be lifted to some higher platform, that he may see beyond his present fear the transalpine good, so that his fear, his coldness, his custom may be broken up like fragments of ice, melted and carried away in the great stream of good will.
Moreover, Swiss voters endorse a popular initiative which aims at banning transalpine freight trucks and making freight transit by rail compulsory.
Richard did a few miracles, the first of which, perhaps significantly, benefited a German cripple boy -- witness, as is not infrequently the case in miracle stories, to the presence of transalpine |foreigners' in the Italian cities.
56); commanded Caesar's fleet at the siege of Massilia (Marseilles) (March-September 49), and appointed governor of Transalpine Gaul (roughly, France) for his successes; put down a rising of the Bellovaci (46); further rewarded by Caesar with the governorship of Cisalpine Gaul (northern Italy) (January?
Plus poussive dans le jeu, la formation transalpine a fait la difference sur coup de pied arrete.
I consider it to have been the pinnacle of our efforts to date, because in March young artists from five European countries returned to Kuks in order to study the forms and expressive means of commedia dell'arte here, as well as how it spread from Italy to transalpine countries and the form in which they domesticated it here.
- Advocate-General's Opinion C-368/04 Transalpine Olleitung in Osterreich.
The construction of two transalpine railway tunnels in Switzerland is set to run some CHF2 billion (1ドル.6 billion) over budget and cost a total of CHF15.8 billion, said the transport ministry.
Nevertheless, the tendency in the Baroque age to revive the philosophical dimension of the Tabula did not come from the Italian Renaissance tradition--in which a figurative and literary valorization prevailed--but from the Transalpine culture that operated during the seventeenth century according to a solid exegetic praxis, a true "encyclopedic-doctrinaire canonization" of Cebes' work.
By means of a transalpine visual vocabulary, Augsburg's powerful merchants and bankers--and most notably Jacob Fugger 'the Rich'--advertised their global economic reach.
Britain's newest monastery was set up a year ago when the ultra-traditonal order of Transalpine Redemptorists bought the 250-acre island from a local farmer for pounds 250,000.

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