continental

About 11.96 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

   continental drift

2. adjective Of the mainland, as opposed to an island offshore.

   continental Europe

3. adjective Relating to, or characteristic of, continental Europe.

   continental breakfast

4. adjective Of or relating to the confederated colonies collectively, in the time of the Revolutionary War.

   continental money

5. noun Someone from the continent.
6. noun A member of the Continental army.
7. noun Paper scrip (paper money) issued by the continental congress, largely worthless by the end of the war.
8. noun The smallest amount; a whit; a jot.

   not worth a continental

Similar words

transcontinental continent-wide mainland african subcontinent continent inland intercontinental metropolitan pan

Often followed by

shelf congress europe army united and drift crust margin divide

Word family

Continental Continentals continentally continentals