/treuh mon"tayn, tram"euhn tayn'/ , adj. Also, transmontane .
1. being or situated beyond the mountains.
2. beyond the Alps as viewed from Italy; transalpine.
3. of, pertaining to, or coming from the other side of the mountains.
4. foreign; barbarous.
n.
5. a person who lives beyond the mountains: formerly applied by the Italians to the peoples beyond the Alps, and by the latter to the Italians.
6. a foreigner; outlander; barbarian.
7. a violent, polar wind from the northwest that blows in southern France.
[ 1300-50 for an earlier sense; 1585-95 for def. 5; ME tramountayne pole star tramontano transmontanus beyond the mountains. See TRANS-, MOUNT 2 , -AN ]