continental divide

1. 1.

   the watershed of a continent (especially the watershed of North America formed by a series of mountain ridges extending from Alaska to Mexico)

   Broaderwatershed

   PartsGreat Divide

   North America

Questions about continental divide

What does continental divide mean?

continental divide means "the watershed of a continent (especially the watershed of North America formed by a series of mountain ridges extending from Alaska to Mexico)".

Is continental divide a common word?

continental divide 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.