WordNet
adj. of a region of the United States generally including Delaware; Maryland; Virginia; and usually New York; Pennsylvania; New Jersey; "mid-Atlantic states" [syn: middle Atlantic]
Wikipedia
Mid-Atlantic can refer to:
- Mid-Atlantic English, a mix between British English and American English
- Mid-Atlantic Region (Little League World Series), one of the United States geographic divisions of the Little League World Series
- Mid-Atlantic Ridge, an underwater mountain range in the Atlantic Ocean separating two tectonic plates
- Mid-Atlantic states, a geographic region of the United States
- Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling, brand name for wrestling events promoted by Jim Crockett Promotions
Usage examples of "mid-atlantic".
Yemaya wasn’t the only company interested in harvesting hyperthermophiles from black smokers, and since this particular region of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge lay beyond any of the economic zones claimed by France or Portugal, it was legally a no-man’s-land.
She's born off the western tip of Africa, follows the mid-Atlantic ridge north, then curves easterly between Baffin Island and Greenland, and then dies in the Labrador Sea.
It was the brainchild of the brewery owners eldest son, who had spent two weeks on a package tour of the States and had returned with a mid-Atlantic accent and a penchant for Randolph Scott impersonations.
As usual, his photographic memory helped, and he worked for three solid hours until, over mid-Atlantic, he succumbed to the need for sleep.
Cyril Whittemore, a radio actor whose mid-Atlantic accent is so pitch perfect that it’s impossible to tell which side of the ocean he is from.