continental
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4.6
- adjective
- /ˌkɒntɪˈnɛntl/
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continental
- The continental climate of this area leads to hot summers and cold winters.
- continental shelf
- continental climate
- continental United States
There's sort of cutting edge continental theorists like Baddieu and Rancier.
- There's sort of cutting edge continental theorists like Baddieu and Rancier.
- The fact is that ours is not just an island story, It is also a continental story.
- If no one is standing on top of Mount Whitney right now, we are the tallest people in the continental US with our feet on the ground.
- We are on opposite sides of the Continental Divide and we prefer the eastern side.
- I think there is some concern about paying royalties for exploration in the extended continental shelf.
- But of course then when continental drift came along, this was a much slower process where Hapgood was envisioning something much faster.
- It resembles the power failures in continental wide power Nets.
Examples
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The climate is humid continental, with short, cool summers and long, cold winters.
Academic text (2012) -
Furthermore, Alaska's coastal and continental shelf waters provide habitat for most of the nation.
Academic text (1992) -
As long as it's in the continental United States.
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Fault lines, they run throughout the whole continental US.
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You will enjoy our free continental breakfast!
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But before that, he had to make contact with the continental United States.
Fiction book (1990) -
And it's home to the most diverse number of birds anywhere in the continental US besides Big Bend in Texas.
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We're at the most northwestern point in the continental US and it's time to spin.
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The climate of Haripur is continental in character, i.e., very hot in summer and bitterly cold in winter.
Academic text (2015) -
Mongolia's climate is continental, with warm, wet summers and cold, dry winters, often made extremely frigid.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
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5.6
Affecting the whole continent, not just one country
Idioms
Compounds
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2.1
The 48 US states in North America that touch each other, not including Alaska or Hawaii
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6.4
An assembly of colonial representatives who met during the American Revolution to govern and form a national government
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5.5
An army formed by the American colonies in 1775 to win independence from Britain
- Specialized
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A shallow part of the sea next to a continent, usually less than 200 meters deep
- Specialized
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7.4
A line of high land on a continent that separates rivers flowing to different oceans
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The steep part of the sea floor that drops from a continent's edge to the deep ocean floor
- Specialized
A huge sheet of ice that covers most of a continent and spreads outward from its center
A hotel rate that includes a simple breakfast each morning but not other meals
A thick soft bed covering filled with feathers or warm fibers used instead of sheets
A high mountain line that separates rivers flowing to the Pacific from those flowing to the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans
How Continental
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Continental comes from continent, which comes from the Latin root continere meaning 'to hold together' and is like the common English word contain. So continental describes the 'mainland' or the large, held-together land of a continent, not the islands.