Associations to the word «Transcontinental»

Wiktionary

TRANSCONTINENTAL, adjective. Crossing, spanning a continent.

Dictionary definition

TRANSCONTINENTAL, adjective. Spanning or crossing or on the farther side of a continent; "transcontinental railway"; "transcontinental travelers"; "a transcontinental city".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats