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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Continental \Con`ti*nen"tal\, n.
(Amer. Hist.) A soldier in the Continental army. See Continental, a., 3.
(Amer. Hist.) a piece of the Continental currency, paper money issued under authority of the Continental Congress. See Continental, a.,
Note: "Not worth a continental." was said of Continental currency after the American revolution, when it was considered almost worthless. Eventually, under Alexander Hamilton's direction at the Treasury department, the currency was all redeemed at full value.
Continental \Con`ti*nen"tal\, a.
Of or pertaining to a continent.
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Of or pertaining to the main land of Europe, in distinction from the adjacent islands, especially England; as, a continental tour; a continental coalition.
--Macaulay.No former king had involved himself so frequently in the labyrinth of continental alliances.
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(Amer. Hist.) Of or pertaining to the confederated colonies collectively, in the time of the Revolutionary War; as, Continental money.
The army before Boston was designated as the Continental army, in contradistinction to that under General Gage, which was called the ``Ministerial army.''
--W. Irving.Continental Congress. See under Congress.
Continental system (Hist.), the blockade of Great Britain ordered by Napoleon by the decree of Berlin, Nov. 21, 1806; the object being to strike a blow at the maritime and commercial supremacy of Great Britain, by cutting her off from all intercourse with the continent of Europe.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1818 as a purely geographical term, from continent + -al (1). In reference to the European mainland (as opposed to Great Britain), recorded from 1760. Continental breakfast (the kind eaten on the continent as opposed to the kind eaten in Britain) is attested by 1855. In reference to the British American colonies from 1774; the Continental Congress is attested from 1775; continental divide in use by 1865; continental rise in geology from 1959; continental slope from 1907. Continental shelf first attested 1888.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or relating to a continent or continents. 2 In the main part of a country or region, as opposed to on one of its islands. 3 (lb en chiefly in the UK) Characteristic of the style of continental Europe, as opposed to British. 4 (lb en US historical) Of or relating to the confederated colonies collectively, in the time of the Revolutionary War. alt. 1 Of or relating to a continent or continents. 2 In the main part of a country or region, as opposed to on one of its islands. 3 (lb en chiefly in the UK) Characteristic of the style of continental Europe, as opposed to British. 4 (lb en US historical) Of or relating to the confederated colonies collectively, in the time of the Revolutionary War. n. 1 Someone from the continent. 2 (cx US historical English) A member of the Continental army. 3 (cx US historical English) Paper scrip (paper money) issued by the continental congress, largely worthless by the end of the war (hence the expression "not worth a continental")
WordNet
adj. of or pertaining to or typical of Europe; "a Continental breakfast"
of or relating to or concerning the American colonies during and immediately after the Revolutionary War; "the Continental Army"; "the Continental Congress"
of or relating to or characteristic of a continent; "the continental divide"; "continental drift"
being or concerning or limited to a continent especially the continents of North America or Europe; "the continental United States"; "continental Europe"; "continental waters" [ant: intercontinental]
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 509
Land area (2000): 0.709200 sq. miles (1.836820 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.009000 sq. miles (0.023310 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.718200 sq. miles (1.860130 sq. km)
FIPS code: 18504
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 41.097971 N, 84.266388 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 45831
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Wikipedia
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
Continental is a manufacturer of side dishes and recipe bases (including packs of dried pasta and sauces) in Australia. It is a subsidiary of Unilever.
Continental was the monthly in-flight magazine for Continental Airlines. It was read by approximately 55 million passengers a year. On May 2, 2010, Continental agreed to a merger with United Airlines. Subsequently, Continental flights now issue the Hemispheres magazine.
The Continental was a bulk carrier that sank in Lake Michigan off the coast of Two Rivers, Wisconsin, United States. In 2009 the shipwreck site was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
Continental is an album by the British band Saint Etienne which had original release only in Japan.
It is a compilation that includes previously released material such as the UK hit "He's on the Phone" as well as curios like their cover of the Paul Gardiner/ Gary Numan song " Stormtrooper in Drag". Many of the tracks were recorded during the 'wilderness' years of 1996/97 when the band members worked on their separate projects. The remix versions on this album had all appeared on Casino Classics.
As part of the 2009 Saint Etienne back catalogue reissue program, the album has had a UK release for the first time. It also has a Heavenly catalogue number - HVNLP70. The deluxe edition includes four previously unreleased tracks.
Continental is a film directed by Malcolm Ingram, which premiered at SXSW festival on March 10, 2013. The film is a documentary about the history of the Continental Baths, a historic gay bathhouse in New York City. It is also, notably, Ingram's first film since 1999's Tail Lights Fade not to have Kevin Smith on board as a co-producer. The film was funded with help from Kickstarter
Prominent figures appearing in the film, either in archival footage or in new interviews, include Jaye P. Morgan, Holly Woodlawn, Michael Musto, Frankie Knuckles, Bette Midler and Sarah Dash.
Usage examples of "continental".
That a copy of these resolutions be transmitted by express to the President of the Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia, to be laid before that body.
But Adams adamantly opposed hereditary monarchy and hereditary aristocracy in America, as well as all hereditary titles, honors, or distinctions of any kind--it was why he, like Jefferson and Franklin, strongly opposed the Society of the Cincinnati, the association restricted to Continental Army officers, which had a hereditary clause in its rules whereby membership was passed on to eldest sons.
IN 1774, Adams was chosen by the legislature as one of five delegates to the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia, and with all Massachusetts on the verge of rebellion, he removed Abigail and the children again to Braintree, where they would remain.
Mifflin, a wealthy young Philadelphia merchant who served with Adams in the Continental Congress, had been one of the first to welcome Adams on his arrival in Philadelphia.
That Franklin was quietly proposing to equip the Continental Army with bows and arrows must have left Adams still more puzzled.
In all the surviving record of official and private papers pertaining to the Continental Congress, there is only one member or eyewitness to events in Philadelphia in 1776 who wrote disparagingly of John Adams, and that was Adams writing long years afterward.
Already Adams was serving on twenty-three committees, and that same week was assigned to three more, including an all-important new Continental Board of War and Ordnance, of which he was to be the president.
Adams said, was the best choice for the task, just as Washington had been the best choice to command the Continental Army, and again Adams had played a key part.
IT HAD BEEN NINE YEARS since the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia, eight years since Lexington and Concord, seven since the Declaration of Independence, and more than three years since John Adams had last left home in the role of peacemaker.
Fourteen years earlier, it had been Adams who called on the Continental Congress to make the tall Virginian commander-in-chief of the army.
Wolcott, the youngest at thirty-seven, was the son of the Oliver Wolcott with whom Adams had served in the Continental Congress.
Ontario and New Brunswick took the continental Anschluss and territorial Reconfiguration like good sports.
It was a follow-on to the Reagan Star Wars concept, an antiballistic missile defense system intended to guarantee the security of the continental United States.
Declaration and surgeon general of the Continental Army, started one of the first antislavery associations.
In tiers and scarps, crags and cliffs, thinly brush-grown or naked rock, the continental shelf dropped down three kilometers to the Antonine Seabed.