continent
IPA: kˈɑntʌnʌnt
noun
- One of the main continuous landmasses, separated by water or geological features, on the surface of a planet, sometimes including its continental shelves and the islands on them.
- Each of the traditional main regions into which the Earth’s land surface is divided, now generally regarded as seven in number, each usually including both an extent of mainland and various conventionally associated islands, etc.
- (obsolete in general sense) A large contiguous landmass as opposed to its islands, peninsulas, and so forth; mainland. Also specifically, the Old World continent of Europe–Asia–Africa: see the Continent.
- (figuratively) A large connected expanse of something in general.
- (obsolete) Any continuous tract or area of land; country, connected region.
- (obsolete) Land (as opposed to the water), dry land.
- (obsolete) The body or mass of a celestial body such as the sun or moon.
- (obsolete) Container, vessel, something that holds or contains something else.
- (obsolete) Space, capacity.
- (obsolete) The principal or essential points of something viewed collectively: sum, summary, substance.
- (obsolete) The Old World.
- Synonym of Europe (including Britain)
- (UK) Mainland Europe, as seen from the British Isles.
- An Encratite.
adjective
- Exercising self-restraint; controlled, temperate with respect to one’s bodily needs or passions, especially sex.
- Having voluntary control over one’s urination or defecation.
- (obsolete) Not interrupted; connected; continuous, whether in time or space.
- (obsolete) Serving to restrain or limit; restraining; opposing.
- (obsolete) Containing or capable of containing.
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Examples of "continent" in Sentences
- America is the name of the continent.
- The travellers traversed the continent.
- The island is in the Australian continent.
- The Elven Lands lie to the east of the continent.
- The Rhiado continent is the main land and focus of the game.
- The Gambia is the smallest country on the continent of Africa.
- The Bitter Sea is the most politically active area of the continent.
- So the handwriting actually depends on the country, not the continent.
- Salim urged Africans to move with speed on the path of economic development, which he termed the continent's second liberation.
- “The America our forefathers brought forth on this continent is a market — a free market in power, goods and services, entertainment, and spirituality,” McDougall points out.
- Mark, the antarctic continent is permanently below freezing, meaning the ice balance *in the continent* is primarily responsive to precipitation and ice flow rates rather than directly to temps.
- If instead he was actually speaking of all Americans (excluding, presumably, Native Americans, for whom this continent is their "original homeland"), then Jews are, in a basic sense, the most (not least) attenuated from their "original homeland."
- With policy at a roadblock in many European capitals, and much initiative focused upon national rather than international issues, the continent is at an effective standstill except for momentum generated by Brussels, especially through the EU's 2020 initiative.
- Their claim to possession of the entire North American continent is based on an impressive array of statistics, historical records, and recent incidents of real or alleged abuses by the so-called White Supremacists, who allegedly stole the continent from the original inhabitants and have continued to oppress them ever since the so-called "discovery" of the New World by Christopher Columbus in 1492.