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Definition of Continental

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to or typical of Europe. "A Continental breakfast"

2. Adjective. Of or relating to or concerning the American colonies during and immediately after the American Revolutionary War. "The Continental Congress"

3. Adjective. Of or relating to or characteristic of a continent. "Continental drift"

4. Adjective. Being or concerning or limited to a continent especially the continents of North America or Europe. "Continental waters"

Definition of Continental

1. a. Of or pertaining to a continent.

2. n. A soldier in the Continental army, or a piece of the Continental currency. See Continental, a., 3.

Definition of Continental

1. Adjective. Of or relating to a continent or continents. ¹

2. Adjective. In the main part of a country or region, as opposed to on one of its islands. ¹

3. Adjective. (chiefly in the UK) Characteristic of the style of continental Europe, as opposed to British. ¹

4. Noun. Someone from "the continent". ¹

5. Noun. (US History) A member of the Continental army. ¹

6. Noun. (US History) Paper scrip (paper money) issued by the continental congress, largely worthless by the end of the war (hence the expression "not worth a continental") ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Continental

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Continental

contigs contiguate contiguities contiguity contiguous contiguous 48 contiguous United States contiguous map contiguously contiguousness

continences continency continent continent-wide continental (current term) continental US continental United States continental breakfast continental breakfasts continental divide

continental divides continental drift continental glacier continental philosophy continental plan continental quilt continental quilts continental shelf continental shelves

Literary usage of Continental

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1907)
"greatest interest to know the form and northward extension of the continental shelves from the known coasts into the still Unknown North ; we should then be ..."

2. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1906)
"Switzerland suffered much from the continental Blockade. ... In Switzerland the continental System was applied with extreme rigour. ..."

3. Manual of Plant Diseases by Paul Sorauer, Gustav Lindau, Ludwig Reh (1922)
"continental AND MARINE CLIMATES. The characteristic distinction of regions ... The continental climate produces smaller but specifically heavier grain, ..."

4. The American Historical Review by American historical association (1904)
"ELECTION OF DELEGATES FROM NEW YORK TO THE SECOND continental CONGRESS THE history of political parties in New York during the Revolution is the history of ..."

5. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1922)
"For all the trade of Germany had been dislocated and the mercantile classes embittered by the Napoleonic "continental System," which was to ruin Britain by ..."

6. Report (1913)
"ORIGIN OF continental FORMS III. BY HOWARD B. BAKER. 1. THE THEORY. In previous papers I have outlined the theory that the present continents are the ..."

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