North Atlantic
25
2.5
- noun
:
Atlántico Norte
- The Gulf Stream is part of the North Atlantic gyre.
- North Atlantic Treaty
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- North Atlantic swordfish
All in all, the current makes one big circle that's called the North Atlantic Gyre.
- All in all, the current makes one big circle that's called the North Atlantic Gyre.
- And there are some evidence that temperatures in the North Atlantic are warmer.
Examples
-
There simply were not enough weather stations over the North Atlantic to provide sufficient data.
Academic text (1994) -
There is still a prospering North Atlantic fishing industry, but only in countries that have retained their independence.
-
We're in the middle of the North Atlantic.
-
As a result, the North Atlantic is the ocean's largest source of new deep water.
Academic text (1994) -
It's travelling across the North Atlantic and shortly it will reach northwest Europe.
-
A few months earlier, I had been on a tanker in the North Atlantic.
Fiction book (1991) -
They exist right here in the North Atlantic, a very strategic place.
-
Narrator A: Leif Eriksson and his crew of 35 men are sailing the North Atlantic Ocean, heading west.
Fiction book (2000) -
The wind over the Atlantic Ocean usually blows West to east, and the North Atlantic Oscillation strengthens it and pushes it north.
-
The Titanic sank in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean' is directly and compositionally derived from 'north' (northern portion) + 'Atlantic' (the ocean). Compass-point + place is a common, cross-linguistic naming pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand this term.
Etymology
North Atlantic is a place name that points to the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean. North means the top side and Atlantic is the ocean between Europe/Africa and the Americas, so the phrase means the 'northern part of the Atlantic Ocean'.