coterminous & brigadoon
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scottobearcoterminous \koh-TUR-muh-nuhs\, adjective:
1. Having the same or coincident boundaries.
2. Having the same scope, range of meaning, duration.
Coterminous is from Latin conterminus, from com-, "together; with" + terminus, "boundary."
brigadoon \BRIG-uh-doon\ noun:
An idyllic place that is out of touch with reality or one that makes its appearance for a brief period in a long time.
[From Brigadoon, a village in the musical of the same name, by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, based on the story Germelshausen by Friedrich Gerstacker. Brigadoon is under a curse that makes it invisible to outsiders except on one day every 100 years.]
1. Having the same or coincident boundaries.
2. Having the same scope, range of meaning, duration.
Coterminous is from Latin conterminus, from com-, "together; with" + terminus, "boundary."
brigadoon \BRIG-uh-doon\ noun:
An idyllic place that is out of touch with reality or one that makes its appearance for a brief period in a long time.
[From Brigadoon, a village in the musical of the same name, by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, based on the story Germelshausen by Friedrich Gerstacker. Brigadoon is under a curse that makes it invisible to outsiders except on one day every 100 years.]
