Mediterranean
The definition of Mediterranean is something related to or characteristic of the Mediterranean Sea, the countries bordering the sea or its inhabitants.
(adjective)Food that comes from a country bordering the Mediterranean Sea is an example of something that would be described as mediterranean.
Mediterranean is defined as the Mediterranean Sea or a native of a country bordering the Mediterranean Sea.
(noun)The largest inland sea, located between Europe, Asia and Africa, is an example of the Mediterranean.
See Mediterranean in Webster's New World College Dictionary
adjective
- Archaic
- far from the coast; inland: said of land
- surrounded, or almost surrounded, by land; landlocked: said of water
- of the Mediterranean Sea or nearby regions
- designating or of a physical type of the Caucasoid peoples exemplified by the long-headed, short, olive-skinned people living around the Mediterranean Sea
- ☆ 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
Origin: < L mediterraneus < medius, middle (see mid) + terra, land (see terrain)
noun
See Mediterranean in American Heritage Dictionary 4
adjective
Origin:
Origin: Latin mediterrāneus, inland
Origin: : medius, middle; see medhyo- in Indo-European roots
Origin: + terra, land; see ters- in Indo-European roots
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Related Forms:
- Medˌi·ter·raˈne·an adjective & n.
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