continental

• (continental Europe): Continental

continent +‎ -al

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌkɑntɪˈnɛntl̩/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌkɒntɪˈnɛntl̩/

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• Rhymes: -ɛntəl
• Hyphenation: con‧ti‧nent‧al

continental (comparative more continental, superlative most continental)

1. Of or relating to a continent or continents.

   continental drift

   • 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 156165476:

     No former king had involved himself so frequently in the labyrinth of continental alliances.

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

   continental Europe

   • 1846 The Parliamentary gazetteer of Ireland (A. Fullarton, Dublin) Vol.1 p.x "Introduction; Extent" :

     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.

3. (chiefly UK) Relating to, or characteristic of, continental Europe.

   continental breakfast

   • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter I, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 731476803:

     at Monte Carlo or some of the other Continental gambling-hells

4. (US, historical) Of or relating to the confederated colonies collectively, in the time of the Revolutionary War.

   continental money

• (in the main part of a country or region, as opposed to on one of its islands): mainland
• (characteristic of the style of continental Europe'): European

• (characteristic of the style of continental Europe): British, English

continental (plural continentals)

1. Someone from the continent.
   • 2012, Marjorie Senechal, I Died for Beauty: Dorothy Wrinch and the Cultures of Science:

     Reflecting on his long career chronicling scientists, J. G. Crowther wondered why it was that in the grand debates over the nature of light, x-rays, and cathode rays, the British opted for particles and the continentals for waves.

2. (US, historical) A member of the Continental army.
3. (US, historical) Paper scrip (paper money) issued by the continental congress, largely worthless by the end of the war.
4. (obsolete, by extension) The smallest amount; a whit; a jot.

   not worth a continental

   I don't care a continental!

continent +‎ -al

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /kon.ti.nənˈtal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /kun.ti.nənˈtal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /kon.ti.nenˈtal/

continental (masculine and feminine plural continentals)

1. continental

• intercontinental

• “continental” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “continental”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “continental” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “continental” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

continent +‎ -al

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continental (feminine continentale, masculine plural continentaux, feminine plural continentales)

1. continental

• Chine continentale

• “continental”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

continente +‎ -al

continental m or f (plural continentais)

1. continental

• intercontinental

• “continental” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

continent +‎ -al

continental m (feminine singular continentala, masculine plural continentals, feminine plural continentalas)

1. continental

From continente +‎ -al.

• Rhymes: -al, -aw
• Hyphenation: con‧ti‧nen‧tal

continental m or f (plural continentais)

1. continental
2. (chiefly Azores, chiefly Madeira) Portuguese from the mainland

• continentalmente
• intercontinental

continental m or f by sense (plural continentais)

1. (chiefly Azores, chiefly Madeira) Portuguese from the mainland

• “continental” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Borrowed from French continental. By surface analysis, continent +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): /ˌkon.ti.nenˈtal/

continental m or n (feminine singular continentală, masculine plural continentali, feminine and neuter plural continentale)

1. continental

• continent

continente +‎ -al

• IPA^(key): /kontinenˈtal/ [kõn̪.t̪i.nẽn̪ˈt̪al]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: con‧ti‧nen‧tal

continental (plural continentales)

1. continental

• intercontinental
• deriva continental
• continentalmente
• plataforma continental

• “continental”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014