TRAMONTANE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tramontane mean? 

• TRAMONTANE (noun)
  The noun TRAMONTANE has 1 sense:

1. a cold dry wind that blows south out of the mountains into Italy and the western Mediterranean

  Familiarity information: TRAMONTANE used as a noun is very rare.

• TRAMONTANE (adjective)
  The adjective TRAMONTANE has 2 senses:

1. on or coming from the other side of the mountains (from the speaker)

2. being or coming from another country

  Familiarity information: TRAMONTANE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRAMONTANE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A cold dry wind that blows south out of the mountains into Italy and the western Mediterranean

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

tramontana; tramontane

Hypernyms ("tramontane" is a kind of...):

boreas; north wind; norther; northerly (a wind that blows from the north)

• TRAMONTANE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

On or coming from the other side of the mountains (from the speaker)

Synonyms:

tramontane; transmontane

Context example:

tramontane winds

Similar:

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

Antonym:

cismontane (on this (the speaker's) side of the mountains)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Being or coming from another country

Context example:

tramontane influences

Similar:

foreign; strange (relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world)