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Medi·ter·ra·nean (med′ə tə rā′nē ən)

adjective

  1. Archaic
    1. far from the coast; inland: said of land
    2. surrounded, or almost surrounded, by land; landlocked: said of water
  2. of the Mediterranean Sea or nearby regions
  3. designating or of a physical type of the Caucasoid peoples exemplified by the long-headed, short, olive-skinned people living around the Mediterranean Sea
  4. ☆ 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

Etymology: < L mediterraneus < medius, middle (see mid) + terra, land (see terrain)

noun

a Mediterranean person
Mediterranean2 definition

Medi·ter·ra·nean (med′ə tə rā′nē ən)

Mediterranean Sea

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Mediterranean Synonyms

Mediterranean

modif.

south European, Latinate, Italianate; see classical 2, European, Latin 2.


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Mediterranean Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • cruise: We cruise holiday mediterranean found over cunard line's queen.

Adjective modifier

  • eastern: Companies in the the eastern mediterranean priced from pounds.

Modifies a noun

  • island: American market each routes mediterranean island cruises to avoid.

Noun used with modifier

  • holland: Up america cruise holland mediterranean also qualify starting prices range greek look to.
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Mediterranean quotes

We make this wide encircling movement in the Mediterranean, having for its primary object the recovery of the command of that vital sea, but also having for its object the exposure of the under-belly of the Axis, especially Italy, to heavyattack.

-Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer

All my wife has ever taken from the Mediterraneanö from that whole vast intuitive cultureöare four bottles of Chianti to make into lamps.

-Shaffer, Peter

Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lulled by the coil of his crystalline streams Beside a pumice isle in Baiae's bay, And saw in sleep old palaces and towers Quivering within the wave's intenser day, All overgrown with azure moss and flowers So sweet, the sense faints picturing them.

-Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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