Usually means: Pertaining to large land masses.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. continental: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Continental, continental: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. continental: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Continental: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Continental, continental: Vocabulary.com
  6. Continental, continental: Wordnik
  7. Continental, continental: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Continental, continental: Wiktionary
  9. continental: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. continental: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. continental: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Continental, continental: Dictionary.com
  13. continental: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  15. Continental: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. continental: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. continental: Rhymezone
  18. Continental: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. continental: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. continental: Free Dictionary
  21. continental: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. continental: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. continental: Encyclopedia

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. continental, continental: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Continental: A Seattle Lexicon
  3. Continental, The Continental: Urban Dictionary

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  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See continentally as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of or relating to a continent or continents.
adjective:  Of the mainland, as opposed to an island offshore.
adjective:  Relating to, or characteristic of, continental Europe.
adjective:  (US, historical) Of or relating to the confederated colonies collectively, in the time of the Revolutionary War.
noun:  Someone from the continent.
noun:  (US, historical) A member of the Continental army.
noun:  (US, historical) Paper scrip (paper money) issued by the continental congress, largely worthless by the end of the war.
noun:  (obsolete, by extension) The smallest amount; a whit; a jot.
adjective:  Synonym of European (including insular Europe, such as Britain, Ireland)
adjective:  (historical, US, UK) Pertaining to the colonies of British North America covered by the Continental Congress.
noun:  Synonym of European (a denizen of Europe)
noun:  (UK) A denizen of continental Europe
noun:  (UK) A denizen of the European Union
noun:  (historical, US, UK) A denizen of the colonies of British North America covered by the Continental Congress.
adjective:  (UK) Alternative form of continental, continental European. [Of or relating to a continent or continents.]
adjective:  (UK) Alternative form of continental (pertaining to the European Union). [Of or relating to a continent or continents.]

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