Mediterranean Definition

mĕdĭ-tə-rānē-ən, -rānyən
adjective
Far from the coast; inland.
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Surrounded, or almost surrounded, by land; landlocked.
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Of the Mediterranean Sea or nearby regions.
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Designating or of a physical type of the Caucasoid peoples exemplified by the long-headed, short, olive-skinned people living around the Mediterranean Sea.
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Designating or of a style of furniture made, as through the use of plastic moldings, to simulate the heavy wood, massive lines, and ornate carving of a kind of Renaissance furniture.
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noun
A Mediterranean person.
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Origin of Mediterranean

  • Latin mediterrāneus inland medius middle medhyo- in Indo-European roots terra land ters- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Mediterranean Sentence Examples

  • That's a true Mediterranean sky.

  • The principal rivers entering the Mediterranean directly are the Nile from Africa, and the Po, Rhone and Ebro from Europe.

  • The "Mediterranean region," as a geographical unit, includes all this area; the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmora are within its submerged portion, and the climate of the whole is controlled by the oceanic influences of the Mediterranean Sea.

  • His station, Philippeville, is close to the shores of the Mediterranean, and sea breezes persisted during the day.

  • The Mediterranean is all that remains of a great ocean which at an early geological epoch, before the formation of the Atlantic, encircled half the globe along a line of latitude.

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