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Transcontinental

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Spanning or crossing a continent.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Crossing, spanning a continent.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Extending or going across a continent.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Across the continent; on the other side of a continent: as, a transcontinental journey; transcontinental railways.

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adj. spanning or crossing or on the farther side of a continent

Word Usage

"We have spent millions in transcontinental lines-we have three of them practically crossing this continent; we have subsidized them so that we might have recinrocity from province to province, and trade from the East to the West."

Equivalent

continental

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Occidental Oriental accidental coincidental compartmental

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

cross-country narrow gauge southward transatlantic sight-seeing