continental
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- (continental Europe): Continental
Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌkɑntɪˈnɛntl̩/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌkɒntɪˈnɛntl̩/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛntəl
- Hyphenation: con‧ti‧nent‧al
Adjective
[edit]continental (comparative more continental, superlative most continental)
- Of or relating to a continent or continents.
- continental drift
- 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:
- 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.
- 1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England from the Accession of Henry VII. to the Death of George II. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:
- No former king had involved himself so frequently in the labyrinth of continental alliances.
- 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.
- 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:
- at Monte Carlo or some of the other Continental gambling-hells
- (US, historical) Of or relating to the confederated colonies collectively, in the time of the Revolutionary War.
- continental money
Synonyms
[edit]- (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
Antonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- amphicontinental
- bicontinental
- continental breakfast
- continental crust
- continental divide
- Continental Divide (community)
- continental drift
- continental drip
- Continentaler
- continental Europe
- continental glacier
- continentalism
- continentalist
- continentality
- continentalization
- continentalize
- continentally
- continental philosophy
- continental plate
- continental quilt
- continental seating
- continental shelf
- continental shift
- continental slope
- continental time
- continental United States
- continental US
- epicontinental
- extracontinental
- hypercontinental
- intercontinental
- intracontinental
- microcontinental
- midcontinental
- multicontinental
- noncontinental
- palaeocontinental
- paleocontinental
- pancontinental
- pluricontinental
- pluricontinental
- semicontinental
- subcontinental
- supercontinental
- transcontinental
- trans-continental
- tricontinental
- uncontinental
Descendants
[edit]- → Korean: 콘티넨털 (kontinenteol)
Translations
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Noun
[edit]continental (plural continentals)
- 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.
- (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.
- (obsolete, by extension) The smallest amount; a whit; a jot.
- not worth a continental
- I don't care a continental!
Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Central) [kun.ti.nənˈtal]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [kon.ti.nənˈtal]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [kon.ti.nenˈtal]
Adjective
[edit]continental m or f (masculine and feminine plural continentals)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “continental” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “continental”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “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.
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Adjective
[edit]continental (feminine continentale, masculine plural continentaux, feminine plural continentales)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “continental”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From continente -al.
Adjective
[edit]continental m or f (plural continentais)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “continental”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
Occitan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]continental m (feminine singular continentala, masculine plural continentals, feminine plural continentalas)
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From continente -al.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
[edit]continental m or f (plural continentais)
- continental
- (chiefly Azores, chiefly Madeira) Portuguese from the mainland
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]continental m or f by sense (plural continentais)
- (chiefly Azores, chiefly Madeira) Portuguese from the mainland
Further reading
[edit]- “continental”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French continental. By surface analysis, continent -al.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]continental m or n (feminine singular continentală, masculine plural continentali, feminine and neuter plural continentale)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | continental | continentală | continentali | continentale | ||
definite | continentalul | continentala | continentalii | continentalele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | continental | continentale | continentali | continentale | ||
definite | continentalului | continentalei | continentalelor | continentalilor |
Related terms
[edit]Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From continente -al.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]continental m or f (masculine and feminine plural continentales)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “continental”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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