bicontinental

adjective

bi·​con·​ti·​nen·​tal (¦)bī-ˌkän-tə-ˈnen-tᵊl 

: of, relating to, or living or working on two continents (such as Europe and North America)

… one of the Soviet Union's leading physicists … faced a most modern dilemma—how to balance the needs of his new two-career, bicontinental marriage to Susan Eisenhower, granddaughter of Ike.

—Science, 15 June 1990

He claimed to have grown up in a sophisticated, bicontinental family …

—Alice Echols, Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin, 2000

Word History

First Known Use

1878, in the meaning defined above

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