What does Continental mean?
Definitions for Continental
ˌkɒn tnˈɛn tlcon·ti·nen·tal
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Princeton's WordNet
Continentaladjective
of or pertaining to or typical of Europe
"a Continental breakfast"
continentaladjective
of or relating to or concerning the American colonies during and immediately after the American Revolutionary War
"the Continental Army"; "the Continental Congress"
continentaladjective
of or relating to or characteristic of a continent
"the continental divide"; "continental drift"
continentaladjective
being or concerning or limited to a continent especially the continents of North America or Europe
"the continental United States"; "continental Europe"; "continental waters"
Wiktionary
continentalnoun
Someone from "the continent".
continentalnoun
(US History) A member of the Continental army.
continentalnoun
(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")
continentaladjective
Of or relating to a continent or continents.
continental drift
continentaladjective
In the main part of a country or region, as opposed to on one of its islands.
continental Europe
continentaladjective
Characteristic of the style of continental Europe, as opposed to British.
continental breakfast
ChatGPT
continental
Continental generally refers to anything related to a continent or continents. This term can be used to describe various aspects such as geography, climate, cuisine, drift, or shelf, among others. The meaning usually depends on the context and subject in which it is being used.
Webster Dictionary
Continentaladjective
of or pertaining to a continent
Continentaladjective
of or pertaining to the main land of Europe, in distinction from the adjacent islands, especially England; as, a continental tour; a continental coalition
Continentaladjective
of or pertaining to the confederated colonies collectively, in the time of the Revolutionary War; as, Continental money
Continentalnoun
a soldier in the Continental army, or a piece of the Continental currency. See Continental, a., 3
Wikidata
Continental
Continental is an album by the British band Saint Etienne which had original release only in Japan. It is a compilation that includes previously released material such as the UK hit "He's on the Phone" as well as curios like their cover of the Paul Gardiner/Gary Numan song "Stormtrooper in Drag". Many of the tracks were recorded during the 'wilderness' years of 1996/97 when the band members worked on their separate projects. The remix versions on this album had all appeared on Casino Classics. As part of the 2009 Saint Etienne back catalogue reissue program, the album has had a UK release for the first time. It also has a Heavenly catalogue number - HVNLP70. The deluxe edition includes four previously unreleased tracks.
Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
continental
A term adopted by the Americans in the Revolutionary war in contradistinction to British.
British National Corpus
Adjectives Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Continental' in Adjectives Frequency: #685
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Continental in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Continental in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of Continental in a Sentence
The highest temperatures experienced in the UK tend to occur when our weather is influenced by air masses from continental Europe or North Africa, as it will be at the weekend, there is already a strongly-embedded warming due to climate change across the continent, that is increasing the likelihood of challenging the existing UK temperature record.
Today, we have a unique situation in our new and recent history. They (other countries) are trying to catch up with us. Not a single country possesses hypersonic weapons, let alone continental-range hypersonic weapons.
From this mapping emerged the picture of Greater Adria, and several smaller continental blocks too, which now form parts of Romania, North Turkey or Armenia, for example, the deformed remnants of the top few kilometers of Greater Adria can still be seen in the mountain ranges. The rest of the piece of continental plate, which was about 100 km thick, plunged under Southern Europe into the earth's mantle, where we can still trace it with seismic waves up to a depth of 1,500 kilometers.
We may reach a tipping point many years out when it may make sense to move all functions that service Europe out of the United Kingdom and into continental Europe.
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York accuses him of accepting bribes totalling millions of dollars in connection with the sale of marketing rights to various sports marketing firms and keeping the money for himself, the marketing rights in question pertain to the broadcast of qualifying matches for the soccer World Cup, regional soccer tournaments and continental soccer championships in North and South America.
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- قاريArabic
- континентален, европейскиBulgarian
- kontinentální, pevninskýCzech
- kontinentalGerman
- ηπειρωτικόςGreek
- kontinentaEsperanto
- continentalSpanish
- manner-Finnish
- continental, continentaleFrench
- mór-roinneachIrish
- mooarheeraghManx
- יבשתי, יבשתיתHebrew
- continentaleItalian
- יַבַּשׁתִיHebrew
- コンチネンタルJapanese
- continentalPortuguese
- континентальныйRussian
- kıtasalTurkish
- 大陆Chinese
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