transcontinental

1. 1.

   spanning or crossing or on the farther side of a continent

   “transcontinental railway”

   “transcontinental travelers”

   “a transcontinental city”

   Similarcontinental

Questions about transcontinental

What does transcontinental mean?

transcontinental means "spanning or crossing or on the farther side of a continent".

How many syllables are in transcontinental?

transcontinental has 5 syllables: tran-scon-ti-nen-tal. The stress falls on "nen". In IPA it is /ˌtɹænzˌkɑntɪˈnɛntəl/.

Is transcontinental a common word?

transcontinental is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 transcontinental?

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