continental army

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   the American army during the American Revolution

   Broaderarmy

Questions about continental army

What does continental army mean?

continental army means "the American army during the American Revolution".

Is continental army a common word?

continental army is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.