Ääntäminen
Southern England
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- RP:
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Määritelmät
Adjektiivi
- Of or relating to a continent or continents.
- Of the mainland, as opposed to an island offshore.
- Relating to, or characteristic of, continental Europe.
- (US, historical) Of or relating to the confederated colonies collectively, in the time of the Revolutionary War.
Substantiivi
- Someone from the continent.
- (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.
Esimerkit
- continental drift
- No former king had involved himself so frequently in the labyrinth of continental alliances.
- continental Europe
- continental breakfast
- “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
- continental money
- ~ Europe – manner-Eurooppa
- ~ drift
- ~ climate
- ~ breakfast
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