tramontane (redirected from tramontanes)

tra·mon·tane  (tr-mntn, trmn-tn)

adj.

1. Dwelling beyond or coming from the far side of the mountains, especially the Alps as viewed from Italy.

2. From another country; foreign.

n.

1. A person who lives beyond the mountains.

2. A foreigner; a stranger.

3. A cold north wind in Italy.

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[Italian tramontano, from Latin trnsmontnus : trns-, trans- + montnus, of a mountain; see mountain.]

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tramontane

1. a person who lives beyond the mountains.
2. a foreigner or stranger. — tramontane, adj.

See also: Foreigners

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	tramontane - a cold dry wind that blows south out of the mountains into Italy and the western Mediterranean tramontana boreas, north wind, norther, northerly - a wind that blows from the north
Adj.	1.	tramontane - on or coming from the other side of the mountains (from the speaker); "the transmontane section of the state"; "tramontane winds" transmontane cismontane - on this (the speaker's) side of the mountains; "a contest in Virginia between a cismontane and a tramontane people"
	2.	tramontane - being or coming from another country; "tramontane influences" foreign, strange - relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world; "foreign nations"; "a foreign accent"; "on business in a foreign city"