transcontinental
See also: trans-continental
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
transcontinental (not comparable)
- Crossing or spanning a continent.
- 1959 November, J. N. Westwood, “The Railways of Canada”, in Trains Illustrated, page 554:
- It is the transcontinental trains which figure most prominently in railway advertising. Both railways run two trains in each direction.
Translations
crossing a continent
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Noun
transcontinental (plural transcontinentals)
- (chiefly in the plural) a transcontinental railroad.
- 1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co.:
- Stretched across the Dominion of Canada are two parallel but dissimilar railways - the continent's only true transcontinentals north of the Rio Grande.
French
Etymology
From trans- + continental.
Pronunciation
Adjective
transcontinental (feminine transcontinentale, masculine plural transcontinentaux, feminine plural transcontinentales)
Further reading
- “transcontinental”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French transcontinental. By surface analysis, trans- + continental.
Pronunciation
Adjective
transcontinental m or n (feminine singular transcontinentală, masculine plural transcontinentali, feminine and neuter plural transcontinentale)
Declension
Declension of transcontinental
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | transcontinental | transcontinentală | transcontinentali | transcontinentale | ||
definite | transcontinentalul | transcontinentala | transcontinentalii | transcontinentalele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | transcontinental | transcontinentale | transcontinentali | transcontinentale | ||
definite | transcontinentalului | transcontinentalei | transcontinentalilor | transcontinentalelor |
Further reading
- transcontinental in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Spanish
Etymology
From trans- + continental.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɾanskontinenˈtal/ [t̪ɾãns.kõn̪.t̪i.nẽn̪ˈt̪al]
- Rhymes: -al
- Syllabification: trans‧con‧ti‧nen‧tal
Adjective
transcontinental m or f (masculine and feminine plural transcontinentales)
Further reading
- “transcontinental”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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