Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bicontinental

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: bi-con-ti-nen-tal
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

5

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Spanning or pertaining to two continents.

Example Sentences

"After a long courtship over the telephone, Asma Ahmed, a painter in Karachi, Pakistan, married her fiancé, Rafi-uddin Shikoh, a business consultant in New York, in a bicontinental wedding by Webcam."

Etymology

From bi- + continental.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: bi

Questions

What does bicontinental mean?: Spanning or pertaining to two continents.
Where does bicontinental come from?: From bi- + continental.

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