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Cont'l

Cont'l is the abbreviation of continental.

Meaning of continental

Noun

continental (plural continentals)

  1. Someone from the continent.
    • Reflecting on his long career chronicling scientists, J. G. Crowther wondered why it was that in the grand debates over the nature of light, x-rays, and cathode rays, the British opted for particles and the continentals for waves.2012, Marjorie Senechal, I Died for Beauty: Dorothy Wrinch and the Cultures of Science
  2. (US, historical) A member of the Continental army.
  3. (US, historical) Paper scrip (paper money) issued by the continental congress, largely worthless by the end of the war.
  4. (broadly, obsolete) The smallest amount; a whit; a jot.
    • not worth a continental

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Questions about Cont'l

What is Cont'l the abbreviation of?
Cont'l is the abbreviation of continental.

Words near Cont'l in the dictionary

  1. consutile
  2. cont
  3. cont p.94
  4. cont p94
  5. cont'd
  6. Cont'l
  7. cont.
  8. cont. p.94
  9. cont. p94
  10. Conta
  11. contabescence

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Cont'l (page history and authors); continental (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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