transoceanic
Americanadjective
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extending across or traversing the ocean.
a transoceanic cable.
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situated or living beyond the ocean.
transoceanic peoples.
adjective
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on or from the other side of an ocean
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crossing an ocean
Etymology
Origin of transoceanic
Example Sentences
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People are incidental to Godzilla’s destructive marches through cities or transoceanic swims.
From Salon • Mar. 20, 2026
The navy got the transoceanic assignment, and the no-bid contracts it handed out are state secrets on national-security grounds.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2026
The mention of Panama in his inaugural speech is not the first time he has focused on the Central American nation and its transoceanic canal.
From BBC • Jan. 22, 2025
"We were amazed to discover that our evolution experiment in tiny flasks had recapitulated the complex patterns that had been previously observed between bacteria and viruses collected at regional and transoceanic scales," said Borin.
From Science Daily • Nov. 9, 2023
What was new, to their mind, was not the New World but the transoceanic voyage.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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