continental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɑntɪˈnɛntl̩/
ipa: /ˌkɒntɪˈnɛntl̩/
rhymes: -ɛntəl
Forms: form: more continental
form: most continental
form: Continental
Etymology: From continent + -al.
Senses: examples: text: continental drift
text: 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.
ref: 2012, Chinle Miller, “The Tectonic Forces of the Mesozoic”, in In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Kindle edition, page 34:
text: No former king had involved himself so frequently in the labyrinth of continental alliances.
ref: 1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England from the Accession of Henry VII. to the Death of George II. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Of or relating to a continent or continents.
examples: text: continental Europe
text: 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.
ref: 1846 The Parliamentary gazetteer of Ireland (A. Fullarton, Dublin) Vol.1 p.x "Introduction; Extent"
glosses: Of the mainland, as opposed to an island offshore.
examples: text: continental breakfast
text: at Monte Carlo or some of the other Continental gambling-hells
ref: 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter I, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Relating to, or characteristic of, continental Europe.
examples: text: continental money
glosses: Of or relating to the confederated colonies collectively, in the time of the Revolutionary War.
Synonyms: sense: in the main part of a country or region, as opposed to on one of its islands
word: mainland
word: characteristic of the style of continental Europe'
Derived terms: word: amphicontinental
word: bicontinental
word: continental breakfast
word: continental crust
english: community
translation: community
word: Continental Divide
word: continental divide
word: continental drift
word: continental drip
word: Continentaler
word: continental Europe
word: continental glacier
word: continentalism
word: continentalist
word: continentality
word: continentalization
word: continentalize
word: continentally
word: continental philosophy
word: continental plate
word: continental quilt
word: continental seating
word: continental shelf
word: continental shift
word: continental slope
word: continental time
word: continental United States
word: continental US
word: epicontinental
word: extracontinental
word: hypercontinental
word: intercontinental
word: intracontinental
word: microcontinental
word: midcontinental
word: multicontinental
word: noncontinental
word: palaeocontinental
word: paleocontinental
word: pancontinental
word: pluricontinental
word: semicontinental
word: subcontinental
word: supercontinental
word: transcontinental
word: trans-continental
word: tricontinental
word: uncontinental