| NOUN | location | continental divide | the watershed of a continent (especially the watershed of North America formed by a series of mountain ridges extending from Alaska to Mexico) |
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| Meaning | The watershed of a continent (especially the watershed of North America formed by a series of mountain ridges extending from Alaska to Mexico). | |
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| Parts | Great Divide | That part of the continental divide formed by the Rocky Mountains in the United States |
| Region | North America | A continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama |
| Broader | watershed, water parting, divide | A ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems |
| Spanish | continental divide, divisoria continental | |
| Catalan | divisòria continental | |
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