Transcontinental

Word TRANSCONTINENTAL
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Hyphenation trans con ti nen tal
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Definitions and meanings of "Transcontinental"

What do we mean by transcontinental?

Spanning or crossing a continent. adjective

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

Extending or going across a continent. adjective

Crossing, spanning a continent. adjective

Spanning or crossing or on the farther side of a continent adjective

(chiefly in the plural) a transcontinental railroad.

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The word "transcontinental" in example sentences

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. ❋ Unknown (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.” ❋ STEPHEN E. AMBROSE (2000)

Doubleday had had a chain of eating houses on the line, as Belle termed the transcontinental railroad. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

By the term "transcontinental", I mean a railroad operated from the Atlantic to the Pacific Coast by one company and one management. ❋ Unknown (1942)

Argentina is developing for this kind of transcontinental or inland development drive? ❋ Unknown (2010)

No the Civil war did not include a "transcontinental" rail road. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A look at the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, set against the building of the first transcontinental railroad. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Mr. Cush said another new destination will be announced next week and later in the year Virgin America will announce the start of a "major" transcontinental route. ❋ Susan Carey (2011)

But caution did not get us to the moon, create the transcontinental railroad, split the atom or complete the Panama Canal. ❋ Matthew Kohut (2011)

Land grants supported far more than the UP/CP transcontinental. ❋ Unknown (2010)

America is the nation that built the transcontinental railroad, brought electricity to rural communities, constructed the Interstate Highway System. ❋ Chris Weigant (2011)

Christopher Bailey's topcoats for Burberry were re-tooled from archival models originally commissioned by the British Air Force for the first transcontinental flyers in 1919 even made the look luxurious. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Given his designs for a transcontinental revolution, Mr. Ch á vez may also see Twitter as a way to mobilize supporters in other Spanish-speaking countries, who don't always have the privilege of watching "Al ó Presidente," his Sunday TV show. ❋ Evgeny Morozov (2010)

Last week Sen. John Hoeven (R-ND) introduced a bill (S. 2041) that would give Congress the authority to approve the controversial transcontinental Keystone XL pipeline, without the President's approval. ❋ Rose Marie Berger (2012)

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