单词 | continentalist |
释义 | continentalistn. 1. = continental n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > [noun] Roumia1576 European1578 Feringhee1634 topi-wallah1826 continental1828 continentalist1834 Dutchman1857 Atlanticist1885 roundeye1955 mainland European1975 Euro1980 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > [noun] > of earth > of continent continental1828 continentalist1834 1834 S. T. Coleridge Table-talk 5 July I believe that Robinson Crusoe and Peter Wilkins could only have been written by islanders. No continentalist could have conceived either tale. 1865 Daily Tel. 4 Nov. 5/3 Sometimes I think..we English..are wrong, and the apathetic Continentalist right. 2. American History. An advocate of the federation of those colonies in revolt in the War of Independence. ΚΠ 1781 A. Hamilton Aug. (title) The Continentalist. 1919 Amer. Catholic Q. Rev. Jan. 81 The Scotch of South Carolina very largely supported the Continentalists, while those in the Mohawk Valley..stood loyally by the Crown. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1781 |
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