Word Meanings - MEDITERRANEAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Inclosed, or nearly inclosed, with land; as, the Mediterranean Sea, between Europe and Africa. 2. Inland; remote from the ocean. Cities, as well mediterranean as maritime. Holland. 3. Of or pertaining to the Mediterranean Sea; as, Mediterranean

Additional info about word: MEDITERRANEAN

1. Inclosed, or nearly inclosed, with land; as, the Mediterranean Sea, between Europe and Africa. 2. Inland; remote from the ocean. Cities, as well mediterranean as maritime. Holland. 3. Of or pertaining to the Mediterranean Sea; as, Mediterranean trade; a Mediterranean voyage.

Related words: (words related to MEDITERRANEAN)

• INLAND
  1. Within the land; more or less remote from the ocean or from open water; interior; as, an inland town. "This wide inland sea." Spenser. From inland regions to the distant main. Cowper. 2. Limited to the land, or to inland routes; within
• AFRICANISM
  A word, phrase, idiom, or custom peculiar to Africa or Africans. "The knotty Africanisms . . . of the fathers." Milton.
• HOLLANDAISE SAUCE; HOLLANDAISE
  A sauce consisting essentially of a seasoned emulsion of butter and yolk of eggs with a little lemon juice or vinegar.
• INCLOSER
  One who, or that which, incloses; one who fences off land from common grounds.
• AFRICANIZE
  To place under the domination of Africans or negroes. Bartlett.
• OCEAN
  1. The whole body of salt water which covers more than three fifths of the surface of the globe; -- called also the sea, or great sea. Like the odor of brine from the ocean Comes the thought of other years. Longfellow. 2. One of the large bodies
• HOLLAND
  A kind of linen first manufactured in Holland; a linen fabric used for window shades, children's garments, etc.; as, brown or unbleached hollands.
• INCLOSE
  Etym: 1. To surround; to shut in; to confine on all sides; to include; to shut up; to encompass; as, to inclose a fort or an army with troops; to inclose a town with walls. How many evils have inclosed me round! Milton. 2. To put within a case,
• NEARLY
  In a near manner; not remotely; closely; intimately; almost.
• INLANDER
  One who lives in the interior of a country, or at a distance from the sea. Sir T. Browne.
• OCEANUS
  The god of the great outer sea, or the river which was believed to flow around the whole earth.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• AFRICAN
  Of or pertaining to Africa. African hemp, a fiber prerared from the leaves of the Sanseviera Guineensis, a plant found in Africa and India. -- African marigold, a tropical American plant . -- African oak or African teak, a timber furnished
• OCEANOLOGY
  That branch of science which relates to the ocean.
• REMOTE
  Separated by intervals greater than usual. -- Re*mote"ly, adv. -- Re*mote"ness, n. (more info) 1. Removed to a distance; not near; far away; distant; -- said in respect to time or to place; as, remote ages; remote lands. Places remote enough are
• AFRICANDER
  One born in Africa, the offspring of a white father and a "colored" mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born of European settlers.
• EUROPEAN
  Of or pertaining to Europe, or to its inhabitants. On the European plain, having rooms to let, and leaving it optional with guests whether they will take meals in the house; -- said of hotels.
• HOLLANDS
  See HOLLAND (more info) 1. Gin made in Holland. 2. pl.
• HOLLANDISH
  Relating to Holland; Dutch.
• HOLLANDER
  1. A native or one of the people of Holland; a Dutchman. 2. A very hard, semi-glazed, green or dark brown brick, which will not absorb water; -- called also, Dutch clinker. Wagner.
• PLEUROPERITONEUM
  The pleural and peritoneal membranes, or the membrane lining the body cavity and covering the surface of the inclosed viscera; the peritoneum; -- used especially in the case of those animals in which the body cavity is not divided. Note: Peritoneum
• POSTREMOTE
  More remote in subsequent time or order.
• PREREMOTE
  More remote in previous time or prior order. In some cases two more links of causation may be introduced; one of them may be termed the preremote cause, the other the postremote effect. E. Darwin.
• FINLANDER
  A native or inhabitant of Finland.
• EURAFRIC; EURAFRICAN
  Of, pertaining to, or designating, the continents of Europe and Africa combined. 2. Pert. to or designating a region including most of Europe and northern Africa south to the Sahara. 3. Of European and African descent.
• TERREMOTE
  An earthquake. Gower.
• GO-BETWEEN
  An intermediate agent; a broker; a procurer; -- usually in a disparaging sense. Shak.
• TEINLAND
  Land granted by the crown to a thane or lord. Burrill.
• PLEUROPERITONEAL
  Of or pertaining to the pleural and peritoneal membranes or cavities, or to the pleuroperitoneum.