tramontane

1. 1.

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

   “the transmontane section of the state”

   “tramontane winds”

   Synonymstransmontane

   Antonymscismontane

   Similartransalpine
2. 2.

   being or coming from another country

   “tramontane influences”

   Similarforeign

1. 1.

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

   Synonymstramontana

   Broadernorth wind

Other forms of tramontane

plural

tramontanes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tramontane

What does tramontane mean?

tramontane means "on or coming from the other side of the mountains (from the speaker)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tramontane?

tramontane has 3 syllables: tra-mon-tane. The stress falls on "tra".

What is another word for tramontane?

Close synonyms include transmontane, tramontana. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of tramontane?

The recorded antonyms are cismontane.

Is tramontane a common word?

tramontane is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.