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Multi-word Results
| continental breakfast |
a light breakfast, usu. consisting of rolls or pastries and coffee or tea, like that eaten in most European countries. |
| Continental Congress |
the revolutionary assembly, made up of landed representatives of the American colonies, that met between 1774 and 1789 to work out a plan of government and adopted both the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation. |
| continental divide |
an extensive ridge of mountains on a continent that separates river systems flowing in opposite directions. |
| continental drift |
the theory that the earth's continents shift their positions because of currents in the molten magma of the earth's mantle. |
| continental shelf |
the edge of a continent that is below water. Just beyond the continental shelf lies a steep slope leading down to the ocean floor. |
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