1 (also Continental) [onlybeforenoun] (BrE) of or in the continent of Europe, not including Britain and Ireland:
a popular continental holiday resort * Britain's continental neighbours
2 (BrE) following the customs of countries in western and southern Europe:
a continental lifestyle * The shutters and the balconies make the street look almost continental.
3 [onlybeforenoun] connected with the main part of the N American continent:
Prices are often higher in Hawaii than in the continental United States.
4 forming part of, or typical of, any of the seven main land masses of the earth:
continental Antarctica / Asia / Europe * to study continental geography
noun (BrE, often disapproving) a person who lives in the continent of Europe:
The continentals have never understood our preference for warm beer.
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