continent
noun
one of the main landmasses of the globe, usually reckoned as seven in number (Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Australia, and Antarctica).
continentally
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a word derived from
continent.
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a word derived from
continental.
Example Sentences
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Frank Lloyd Wright was the first American architect to not only think in continental terms, but to live continentally.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
As the most continentally minded, least parochial of the founders, Hamilton was arguably "the leading, because in an important sense the only, American of the 1790s."
From Time Magazine Archive
It established a continentally based, mobile striking force of four divisions with supporting units.
From Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 by Morris J. MacGregor
As Hamilton would have said, he "thought continentally."
From The Conqueror by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Here surely was one colonial who was trying, in Cecil Rhodes's words, to "think continentally!"
From The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures by Bliss Perry
