Antonym: insular. Similar words: intercontinental, transcontinental, continental divide, continent, incontinent, subcontinent, continence, contingent. Meaning: [‚kɒntɪ'nentl] 
adj. 1. of or pertaining to or typical of Europe 2. of or relating to or concerning the American colonies during and immediately after the American Revolutionary War 3. of or relating to or characteristic of a continent 4. being or concerning or limited to a continent especially the continents of North America or Europe.
adj. 1. of or pertaining to or typical of Europe 2. of or relating to or concerning the American colonies during and immediately after the American Revolutionary War 3. of or relating to or characteristic of a continent 4. being or concerning or limited to a continent especially the continents of North America or Europe. 
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61 Her population, geographical position, army and industrial strength made her the leading continental nation.
62 One means suggested for transfer of moisture into the interior of Pangaea has been monsoonal circulation created by the Permian continental configuration.
63 So long as no viable cause for continental drift could be demonstrated, however, belief in it remained an act of faith.
64 Southern delegates to the Continental Congress expressed unwillingness to use their militias outside their own borders.
65 The resulting orogen would be a modified continental margin type.
66 She cast a regretful look at the big double bed with its luxurious continental quilt.
67 It is possible that a similar flexural effect is associated with great escarpments along passive continental margins.
68 The attic rooms are especially spacious and comfortable. Full continental breakfast.
69 He waxed vehement about dinosaurs and extinction, about continental drift and the good old Galapagos finch.
70 The Supercontinent Cycle alone has left the continental crust riddled with the scars of former rifts and mergers.
71 First, it is linked with the East by a broadening continental land mass.
72 After yet another continental tour Couper returned to Berlin in 1855, determined to study chemistry.
73 Once viewed as a relic, continental drift and seafloor spreading evolved into the modern concept of plate tectonics.
74 Continental Freedom and Global Passports are special Continental programs for seniors who fly frequently.
75 Many continental fresh cheeses have now found their way to the supermarket shelves and to the specialist delicatessen.
76 Continental Railways, was the front-runner in a four-way contest for the contract.
77 It's a focal point for people from miles around and has a really continental flavour.
78 If 5 percent of the continental United States is covered by water, the rest might be covered by Willow Bay.
79 An individual using and being buried with an artefact of, ultimately, Continental type was a person of Germanic origin.
80 They believe that our forces must be so trained and equipped that they can play both a Continental and Maritime role.
81 The shallow drilling programme is central to the systematic survey of the continental shelf.
82 If these researchers are right, the ramifications of this continental shifting may also extend beyond the oceans and solid ground.
83 Most species of marine organism live on the continental shelf.
84 He saw her gesture with her hand toward the moneychangers and the arcade and the terrasse of the Continental Hotel.
85 Breakfast is continental style and dinners are tasty home cooking with a choice of menu.
86 Geophysicists have examined these continental scars to tell the story of cataclysms that struck the earth long ago.
87 Alternatively,(www.Sentencedict.com) subducted oceanic crust may be able to pull adjacent continental crust down into the asthenosphere.
88 The earthquake triggered submarine landslides that dislodged hundreds of cubic kilometers of sediment on the continental slope.
89 Continental has 346, 000 subscribers throughout the region and is the largest cable operator in Los Angeles.
90 Black walls and a white carpet and a racing car continental quilt.
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