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[ UK /tɹænskˌɒntɪnˈɛntəl/ ]
[ UK /tɹænskˌɒntɪnˈɛntəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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spanning or crossing or on the farther side of a continent
a transcontinental city
transcontinental travelers
transcontinental railway
How To Use transcontinental In A Sentence
- We want to reach beyond that, to pioneer in great infrastructure projects, which will be transcontinental in their significance, to unite the continents, to unify the human race in cooperation.
- We don't have a transcontinental railway system!
- What could torpedo these plans is if tourists as a whole cancel their winter holidays out of safety concerns or if the airlines cut capacity on transcontinental routes.
- What could torpedo these plans is if tourists as a whole cancel their winter holidays out of safety concerns or if the airlines cut capacity on transcontinental routes.
- There are so many suave transcontinental know-it-alls out there that this honest, self deprecating travelogue is more refreshing than a 'merican soda cup full of ICE. Observations on D-Land: I Steal a Euro, and Meet a Cool Cop
- Canadian Northern, Canada's third transcontinental railway, was also expanding.
- The third and most challenging joint air defense undertaking of the 1950s was the construction of a transcontinental line along the 70th parallel about 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
- This time the men were imported as work crews to construct the first transcontinental railroad.
- The unity of the United States was effected under the Presidency of Abraham Lincoln, who introduced the transcontinental railway system.
- The Prime Minister headed back a day earlier to pack his bags for China while the other component of the top leadership came in after a transcontinental tour spanning the Atlantic Ocean.