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Määritelmät
Adjektiivit
- Of or relating to a continent or continents.
- In the main part of a country or region, as opposed to on one of its islands.
- (chiefly in the UK) Characteristic of the style of continental Europe, as opposed to British.
- (US, historical) Of or relating to the confederated colonies collectively, in the time of the Revolutionary War.
Substantiivit
- Someone from "the continent".
- (US History) A member of the Continental army.
- (US History) Paper scrip (paper money) issued by the continental congress, largely worthless by the end of the war (hence the expression "not worth a continental")
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
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