continental meaning
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[-ɛntəl] WContinental
- Continental may refer to:
- Continent
- Continental, Arizona, a small community in Pima County, Arizona
- Continental, Ohio, a small town in Putnam County, Ohio
- Continental (album), an album by Saint Etienne
- Continental (brand), a brand of foods used by Unilever in Australia
- Continental (card game), a rummy-style card game
- Continental (currency), paper money issued by the US government during the American Revolution
- Continental (film), a 2013 film
- a group in the Sri Lankan grading system for the cinnamon quills
FR continental 
- NounPLcontinentalsPREcon-SUF-al
- Someone from the continent.
- (US, historical) A member of the Continental army.
- (US, historical) Paper scrip (paper money) issued by the continental congress, largely worthless by the end of the war (hence the expression "not worth a continental").
- Someone from the continent.
- AdjectiveCOMmore continentalSUPmost continental
- Of or relating to a continent or continents.
- continental drift
- In the main part of a country or region, as opposed to on one of its islands.
- continental Europe
- (chiefly in the UK) Characteristic of the style of continental Europe, as opposed to British.
- continental breakfast
- (US, historical) Of or relating to the confederated colonies collectively, in the time of the Revolutionary War.
- continental money
- Of or relating to a continent or continents.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- The top six are assured of continental competition and after making a statement of intent against Stoke, it would take a dramatic collapse for Newcastle to surrender their place.
- Fuxin is in the intergradational zone between the Inner Mongolian Plateau and the Liaohe River Plain, and it has a northern temperate continental monsoon climate.
- The North American continental divide runs along the Rockies.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of continental in English Dictionary
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- Adjectives
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "continental" is an adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.