transcontinental

See also: trans-continental

English

Alternative forms

trans-continental

Etymology

trans- +‎ continental

Adjective

transcontinental (not comparable)

Crossing or spanning a continent.

Translations

crossing a continent

Danish: transkontinental
Finnish: mantereen ylittävä
French: transcontinental (fr)
Georgian: ტრანსკონტინენტური (ṭransḳonṭinenṭuri)
German: transkontinental (de)

Icelandic: sem fer þvert yfir meginland, sem liggur þvert yfir meginland
Russian: трансконтинента́льный (ru) (transkontinentálʹnyj)
Spanish: transcontinental (es)
Swedish: transkontinental

Noun

transcontinental (plural transcontinentals)

(chiefly in the plural) a transcontinental railroad.
- 1959, Steam's Finest Hour, edited by David P. Morgan, 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

Adjective

transcontinental (feminine singular transcontinentale, masculine plural transcontinentaux, feminine plural transcontinentales)

transcontinental

Further reading

“transcontinental” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Spanish

Adjective

transcontinental (plural transcontinentales)

transcontinental

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