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say it: kuhn-TI-nyoo
continue is a verb meaning "continue a certain state, condition, or activity". It carries 10 recorded senses.
allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature
“We cannot continue several servants any longer”
“She retains a lawyer”
“The family's fortune waned and they could not keep their household staff”
“Our grant has run out and we cannot keep you on”
“We kept the work going as long as we could”
“She retained her composure”
“this garment retains its shape even after many washings”
do something repeatedly and showing no intention to stop
“We continued our research into the cause of the illness”
“The landlord persists in asking us to move”
span an interval of distance, space or time
“The war extended over five years”
“The period covered the turn of the century”
“My land extends over the hills on the horizon”
“This farm covers some 200 acres”
“The Archipelago continues for another 500 miles”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for continue come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.