资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Continental \Con`ti*nen"tal\, a.
   1. Of or pertaining to a continent.

   2. Of or pertaining to the main land of Europe, in
      distinction from the adjacent islands, especially England;
      as, a continental tour; a continental coalition.
      --Macaulay.

            No former king had involved himself so frequently in
            the labyrinth of continental alliances. --Hallam.

   3. (Amer. Hist.) Of or pertaining to the confederated
      colonies collectively, in the time of the Revolutionary
      War; as, Continental money.

            The army before Boston was designated as the
            Continental army, in contradistinction to that under
            General Gage, which was called the ``Ministerial
            army.''                               --W. Irving.

   {Continental Congress}. See under {Congress}.

   {Continental system} (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.

资料来源 : WordNet®

Continental Congress
     n : the legislative assembly composed of delegates from the
         rebel colonies who met during and after the American
         Revolution; they issued the Declaration of Independence
         and framed Articles of Confederation