Pertaining or relating to a continent; as the continental powers of Europe. In America, pertaining to the United States, as continental money, in distinction from what pertains to the separate states; a word much used during the revolution.
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1. Of or pertaining to a continent.
2. Of or pertaining to the main land of Europe, in distinction from the adjacent islands, especially England; as, a continental tour; a continental coalition.
3. Of or pertaining to the confederated colonies collectively, in the time of the Revolutionary War; as, Continental money.
A soldier in the Continental army, or a piece of the Continental currency. See Continental, a., 3.
Land Roget’s Thesaurus §342
N. land, earth, ground, dry land, terra firma, # continent, mainland, peninsula, chersonese, delta, tongue of land, neck of land, isthmus, oasis, promontory, highland, coast, shore, scar, strand, beach, playa, bank, lea, seaboard, seaside, seabank, seacoast, seabeach, ironbound coast, loom of the land, derelict, innings, alluvium, alluvion, ancon, riverbank, river bank, levee, soil, glebe, clay, loam, marl, cledge, chalk, gravel, mold, subsoil, clod, clot, rock, crag, acres, real estate, landsman
V. land, come to land, set foot on the soil, set foot on dry land, come ashore, go ashore, debark
Adj. earthy, continental, midland, coastal, littoral, riparian, alluvial, terrene, landed, predial, territorial, geophilous, ripicolous
Adv. ashore, on shore, on land
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