Meaning

Of or relating to a continent or continents..

Definitions by Sense

1. Of or relating to a continent or continents.
2. Of the mainland, as opposed to an island offshore.
3. Relating to, or characteristic of, continental Europe.
4. (US, historical) Of or relating to the confederated colonies collectively, in the time of the Revolutionary War.
5. Someone from the continent.
6. (US, historical) A member of the Continental army.
7. (US, historical) Paper scrip (paper money) issued by the continental congress, largely worthless by the end of the war.
8. (obsolete, by extension) The smallest amount; a whit; a jot.

Example Sentences

continental drift

Offshore to the west of the continental margin during the Early Triassic, the Sonoma highlands formed a volcanic island arc, separated from the mainland by a shallow sea that cut through western Nevada and northwestern Utah.

No former king had involved himself so frequently in the labyrinth of continental alliances.

continental Europe

The outline of continental Ireland is proximately that of a rhomboid ; and, in a general view, is greatly more continuous or less indented and undulated by cuts and sweeps of the sea than the outline of continental Great Britain.

continental breakfast

at Monte Carlo or some of the other Continental gambling-hells

continental money

Word Forms

• more continental
• most continental
• Continental
• continentals

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When Should You Use Continental?

Use continental when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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