continental

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a continent.
2. adj. Of or relating to the mainland of Europe; European.
3. adj. Of or relating to the American colonies during and immediately after the American Revolution.
4. adj. Used as an intensive: "Blaine, Blaine, James G. Blaine,/The continental liar from the state of Maine.” ( Grover Cleveland).
5. n. An inhabitant of a continent.
6. n. An inhabitant of the mainland of Europe; a European.
7. n. A native of the continental United States living or working in Puerto Rico or the U.S. Virgin Islands.
8. n. A soldier in the American army during the American Revolution.
9. n. A piece of paper money issued by the Continental Congress during the American Revolution.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Relating or pertaining to, or of the nature of, a continent; entitled to be considered a continent.
2. Characteristic of a continent: opposed to insular: as, a continental climate. See below.
3. Specifically, of or belonging to the continent, as distinguished from adjacent islands, and especially to the continent of Europe: as, the continental press; the continental Sunday. In American history: Pertaining to the government and affairs of the thirteen revolutionary colonies during and immediately after their struggle against England: as, the Continental Congress; continental money (the paper currency issued by Congress during the revolutionary war).
4. Inclined to favor a strengthening of the general government and an increase of unity among the colonies.
5. n. A native or an inhabitant of a continent, specifically of the continent of Europe.
6. n. In American history, a soldier of the regular army of the revolted colonies in the war of independence.

Wiktionary

1. adj. Of or relating to a continent or continents.
2. adj. In the main part of a country or region, as opposed to on one of its islands.
3. adj. Characteristic of the style of continental Europe, as opposed to British.
4. n. Someone from "the continent".
5. n. A member of the Continental army.
6. n. Paper scrip (paper money) issued by the continental congress, largely worthless by the end of the war (hence the expression "not worth a continental")

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. Of or pertaining to a continent.
2. adj. Of or pertaining to the main land of Europe, in distinction from the adjacent islands, especially England.
3. adj. (Amer. Hist.) Of or pertaining to the confederated colonies collectively, in the time of the Revolutionary War.
4. n. (Amer. Hist.) A soldier in the Continental army. See continental, a., 3.
5. n. (Amer. Hist.) a piece of the Continental currency, paper money issued under authority of the Continental Congress. See Continental, a., 3.

WordNet 3.0

1. adj. of or relating to or concerning the American colonies during and immediately after the American Revolutionary War
2. adj. of or relating to or characteristic of a continent
3. adj. being or concerning or limited to a continent especially the continents of North America or Europe
4. adj. of or pertaining to or typical of Europe