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transcontinental
[ trans-kon-tn-en-tl ]
adjective
- passing or extending across a continent:
a transcontinental railroad.
- on the other, or far, side of a continent.
transcontinental
/ 藢迟谤忙苍锄办蓲苍迟瑟藞苍蓻苍迟蓹濒 /
adjective
- crossing a continent
- on or from the far side of a continent
Derived Forms
- 藢迟谤补苍蝉肠辞苍迟颈藞苍别苍迟补濒濒测, adverb
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 迟谤补苍蝉顎卌辞苍路迟颈路苍别苍顎僼补濒路濒测 adverb
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of transcontinental1
Example Sentences
The Public Utilities Commission was created as the Railroad Commission in the late 1870s, after the completion of the transcontinental railroad.
鈥淗arry Young鈥 made his way to Woodland, which had developed a busy Chinatown populated by immigrants who had come to work on the transcontinental railroad.
To the south, its territory extends to Interstate 40, a major transcontinental trucking route; its 140-mile stretch from Barstow to Needles has no first responders stationed between the two cities.
In 鈥淓uropapa,鈥 he raps about a transcontinental journey that is also tribute to his parents, who both died when Klein was young.
In the mid-1800s, it was Chinese workers who built the western leg of the transcontinental railroad across the Sierra Nevada.
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