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transcontinental

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Spanning or crossing a continent.

from The Century Dictionary.

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

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Extending or going across a continent.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Crossing, spanning a continent.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective spanning or crossing or on the farther side of a continent

Etymologies

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trans- +‎ continental

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Examples

  • 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.

    British Politics and Reciprocity 1911

  • The relatively few people who saw the ceremony at Promontory Point, he wrote, “were strongly impressed with the conviction that the event was of historic importance; but, as I remember it now, we connected it rather with the notion of transcontinental communication and trade with China and Japan than with internal development, or what railroad men call local traffic.”

    Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000

  • The relatively few people who saw the ceremony at Promontory Point, he wrote, “were strongly impressed with the conviction that the event was of historic importance; but, as I remember it now, we connected it rather with the notion of transcontinental communication and trade with China and Japan than with internal development, or what railroad men call local traffic.”

    Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000

  • Doubleday had had a chain of eating houses on the line, as Belle termed the transcontinental railroad.

    Laramie Holds the Range 1898

  • Ulrich's trek brought him through McCook last October and he returned last weekend to thank the people who helped him break a transcontinental speed record.

    McCook Daily Gazette Headlines 2009

  • By the term "transcontinental", I mean a railroad operated from the Atlantic to the Pacific Coast by one company and one management.

    The Railway At War 1942

  • Argentina is developing for this kind of transcontinental or inland development drive?

    LaRouche's Latest 2010

  • No the Civil war did not include a "transcontinental" rail road.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2009

  • No the Civil war did not include a "transcontinental" rail road.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2009

  • No the Civil war did not include a "transcontinental" rail road.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2009

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  • Make me dance, I want to surrender

    Your familiar arms, I remember

    We've been going transcontinental

    Got no car, we just take a rental.

    (I didn't see it coming, by Belle and Sebastian)

    October 14, 2010