CONTINENTAL CONGRESS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The legislative assembly composed of delegates from the rebel colonies who met during and after the American Revolution; they issued the Declaration of Independence and framed Articles of Confederation

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Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("Continental Congress" is a kind of...):

congress (a meeting of elected or appointed representatives)

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