transalpine
- n one living on or coming from the other side of the Alps from Italy
- s on or relating to or characteristic of the region or peoples beyond the Alps from Italy (or north of the Alps)
ancient transalpine Gaul was an area northwest of the Alps and included modern France and Belgium
Cracow was a transalpine university
- Building transalpine pipelines poses mountain-sizeand at times hill-sizeproblems.
- If he stuck it out in the other direction, he would have his other transalpine neighbor, Adolf Hitler, to deal with.
- From the first, Mussolini regarded Hitler as "quite mad," Naziism as incomprehensible transalpine barbarism.