About The Word Continent
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What's The Definition Of Continent?
[n] the European mainland; "Englishmen like to visit the Continent but they wouldn't like to live there"
[n] one of the large landmasses of the earth; "there are seven continents"; "pioneers had to cross the continent on foot" [adj] abstaining from sexual intercourse; "celibate priests" [adj] having control over urination and defecation Synonyms | Synonyms for Continent: celibate | chaste Related Terms | Find terms related to Continent: abstemious | abstentious | abstinent | Africa | America | Antipodes | Apostolic | ascetic | Asia | Asia Major | Asia Minor | Australasia | bridled | celibate | chaste | curbed | down under | East | Eastern Hemisphere | eastland | Encratic | Eurasia | Europe | Far East | fruitarian | inhibited | intact | landmass | Lenten | Levant | maidenly | Middle East | Near East | nephalistic | New World | Occident | Oceania | Old World | on the wagon | Orient | Platonic | pure | Pythagorean | Rechabite | restrained | sexually abstinent | Shaker | sober | Spartan | Stoic | sworn off | teetotal | temperate | the old country | vegetarian | vestal | virgin | virginal | West | Western Hemisphere See Also | Africa | Antarctic continent | Antarctica | Asia | Australia | craton | Eurasia | Europe | Europe | Gondwanaland | landmass | Laurasia | North America | Pangaea | Pangea | South America | subcontinent Continent In Webster's Dictionary \Con"ti*nent\, a. [L. continens, -entis, prop., p. pr.
of continere to hold together, to repress: cf. F. continent.
See {Contain}.]
1. Serving to restrain or limit; restraining; opposing.
[Obs.] --Shak.
2. Exercising restraint as to the indulgence of desires or
passions; temperate; moderate.
Have a continent forbearance till the speed of his
rage goes slower. --Shak.
3. Abstaining from sexual intercourse; exercising restraint
upon the sexual appetite; esp., abstaining from illicit
sexual intercourse; chaste.
My past life
Hath been as continent, as chaste, as true,
As I am now unhappy. --Shak.
4. Not interrupted; connected; continuous; as, a continent
fever. [Obs.]
The northeast part of Asia is, if not continent with
the west side of America, yet certainly it is the
least disoined by sea of all that coast.
--Berrewood.
\Con"ti*nent\, n. [L. continens, prop., a holding together: cf. F. continent. See {Continent}, a.] 1. That which contains anything; a receptacle. [Obs.] The smaller continent which we call a pipkin. --Bp. Kennet. 2. One of the grand divisions of land on the globe; the main land; specifically (Phys. Geog.), a large body of land differing from an island, not merely in its size, but in its structure, which is that of a large basin bordered by mountain chains; as, the continent of North America. Note: The continents are now usually regarded as six in number: North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia. But other large bodies of land are also reffered to as continents; as, the Antarctic continent; the continent of Greenland. Europe, Asia, and Africa are often grouped together as the Eastern Continent, and North and South America as the Western Continent. {The Continent}, the main land of Europe, as distinguished from the islands, especially from England. |
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