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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a cold dry wind that blows south out of the mountains into Italy and the western Mediterranean;
[syn: tramontane, tramontana]


ADJECTIVE (2)

1. on or coming from the other side of the mountains (from the speaker);
- Example: "the transmontane section of the state"
- Example: "tramontane winds"
[syn: tramontane, transmontane]

2. being or coming from another country;
- Example: "tramontane influences"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Tramontane \Tra*mon"tane\, n. One living beyond the mountains; hence, a foreigner; a stranger. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Tramontane \Tra*mon"tane\, a. [OF. tramontain, It. tramontano, L. transmontanus; trans across, beyond + mons, montis, mountain.] Lying or being beyond the mountains; coming from the other side of the mountains; hence, foreign; barbarous. [1913 Webster] Note: The Italians sometimes use this epithet for ultramontane, and apply it to the countries north of the Alps, as France and Germany, and especially to their ecclesiastics, jurists, painters, etc.; and a north wind is called a tramontane wind. The French lawyers call certain Italian canonists tramontane, or ultramontane, doctors; considering them as favoring too much the court of Rome. See Ultramontane. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

tramontane adj 1: on or coming from the other side of the mountains (from the speaker); "the transmontane section of the state"; "tramontane winds" [syn: tramontane, transmontane] [ant: cismontane] 2: being or coming from another country; "tramontane influences" n 1: a cold dry wind that blows south out of the mountains into Italy and the western Mediterranean [syn: tramontane, tramontana]