Definitions for Pontic

Pontic pon·tic

Spelling: [pon-tik]
IPA: /ˈpɒn tɪk/

Pontic is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 107 anagrams from letters in Pontic (cinopt).

Definitions for Pontic

noun

  1. an artificial tooth in a bridge.

adjective

  1. pertaining to the Pontus Euxinus or to Pontus.

Origin of Pontic

1930-35; Latin pont- (stem of pōns) bridge + -ic

Examples for Pontic

(e) is the famous passage about the pontic Sea, and I reserve it for the present.

A fine view is seen from the summit over the plain and the pontic ranges to the north.

First his patrimony was mangled; secondly the pontic spoils; then thirdly the Iberian, which the golden Tagus-stream knoweth.

Thus we are vaguely reminded of Mithridates, the pontic King, who made himself immune to poisons by their daily employment.

The reader will remember Othello's 'pontic sea' with its 'violent pace.'

Oh that that poet, the tearful exile in the pontic territory had never endured worse things!

A great trade was carried on in those times in dried fish from the pontic or Black Sea.

As the ermine was called the pontic mouse, the beaver was named the pontic dog.

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