continental

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of a continent.
• adjective Of or relating to the mainland of Europe; European.
• adjective Of or relating to the American colonies during and immediately after the American Revolution.
• adjective Used as an intensive.
• noun An inhabitant of a continent.
• noun An inhabitant of the mainland of Europe; a European.
• noun A native of the continental United States living or working in Puerto Rico or the US Virgin Islands.
• noun A soldier in the American army during the American Revolution.
• noun A piece of paper money issued by the Continental Congress during the American Revolution.

from The Century Dictionary.

• Relating or pertaining to, or of the nature of, a continent; entitled to be considered a continent.
• Characteristic of a continent: opposed to insular: as, a continental climate. See below.
• 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.
• Inclined to favor a strengthening of the general government and an increase of unity among the colonies.
• noun A native or an inhabitant of a continent, specifically of the continent of Europe.
• noun In American history, a soldier of the regular army of the revolted colonies in the war of independence.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• adjective Of or pertaining to a continent.
• adjective Of or pertaining to the main land of Europe, in distinction from the adjacent islands, especially England.
• adjective (Amer. Hist.) Of or pertaining to the confederated colonies collectively, in the time of the Revolutionary War.
• adjective See under Congress.
• adjective (Hist.) the blockade of Great Britain ordered by Napoleon by the decree of Berlin, Nov. 21, 1806; the object being to strike a blow at the maritime and commercial supremacy of Great Britain, by cutting her off from all intercourse with the continent of Europe.
• noun (Amer. Hist.) A soldier in the Continental army. See continental, a., 3.
• noun (Amer. Hist.) a piece of the Continental currency, paper money issued under authority of the Continental Congress. See Continental, a., 3.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

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

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• adjective of or relating to or concerning the American colonies during and immediately after the American Revolutionary War
• adjective of or relating to or characteristic of a continent
• adjective being or concerning or limited to a continent especially the continents of North America or Europe
• adjective of or pertaining to or typical of Europe