mediterranean

1. 1.

   of or relating to or characteristic of or located near the Mediterranean Sea

   “Mediterranean countries”

Other forms of mediterranean

plural

mediterraneans·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mediterranean

What does mediterranean mean?

mediterranean means "the largest inland sea; between Europe and Africa and Asia". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mediterranean?

mediterranean has 6 syllables: med-i-ter-ra-ne-an. The stress falls on "ra". In IPA it is /ˌmɛdətɚˈeɪniən/.

What is another word for mediterranean?

Close synonyms include Mediterranean Sea. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mediterranean a common word?

mediterranean is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with mediterranean?

2 words rhyme with mediterranean. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.