continue

English Online Dictionary. What means continue‎? What does continue mean?

English

Etymology

From Middle English continuen, from Old French continuer, from Latin continuāre. Displaced native Old English þurhwunian.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kən-tĭnʹyo͞o, IPA^(key): /kənˈtɪnjuː/, /-(j)ɪu̯/
• (Ireland) IPA^(key): /kənˈtɪnjʉu/
  • (Dublin) IPA^(key): /kənˈtɪnjuː/
• Rhymes: -uː

Verb

continue (third-person singular simple present continues, present participle continuing, simple past and past participle continued)

1. (transitive) To proceed with (doing an activity); to prolong (an activity).
2. (transitive) To make last; to prolong.
   • , New York, 2001, p.74:

     Can you account him wise or discreet that would willingly have his health, and yet will do nothing that should procure or continue it?
3. (transitive) To retain (someone or something) in a given state, position, etc.
4. (intransitive, copulative sense obsolete) To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.
5. (intransitive) To resume.

6. (transitive, law) To adjourn, prorogue, put off.

7. (poker slang) To make a continuation bet.

Usage notes

• In the transitive sense, continue may be followed by either the present participle or the infinitive; hence use either "to continue writing" or "to continue to write".
• As continue conveys the sense of progression, it is pleonastic to follow it with "on" (as in "Continue on with what you were doing").

Synonyms

• (transitive, proceed with, to prolong): carry on, crack on, go on with, keep, keep on, keep up, proceed with, sustain, retain
• (intransitive, resume): carry on, go on, proceed, resume

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “transitive, proceed with, to prolong”): terminate, stop, discontinue

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

continue (plural continues)

1. (video games) An option allowing the player to resume play after game over, when all lives have been lost, while retaining their progress.

Anagrams

• un-notice, unnotice

Dutch

Etymology 1

Adjective

continue

1. Misspelling of continu (“continuous”).

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

Adjective

continue

1. inflection of continu:
   1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
   2. definite neuter singular attributive
   3. plural attributive

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.ti.ny/

Verb

continue

1. inflection of continuer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Adjective

continue

1. feminine singular of continu

Anagrams

• couinent

Galician

Verb

continue

1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of continuar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Interlingua

Adjective

continue (comparative plus continue, superlative le plus continue)

1. continuous

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /konˈti.nu.e/, /konˈti.nwe/
• Rhymes: -inue, -inwe
• Hyphenation: con‧tì‧nu‧e, con‧tì‧nue

Adjective

continue f pl

1. feminine plural of continuo

References

Anagrams

• nuocenti

Latin

Adjective

continue

1. vocative masculine singular of continuus

References

• “continue”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• continue in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Verb

continue

1. inflection of continuar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /konˈti.nu.e/

Adjective

continue (plural)

1. feminine/neuter plural of continuu

Verb

continue (third person subjunctive)

1. third-person singular/plural present subjunctive of continua