continent

Meanings

Plural: continents

Noun

• one of the large landmasses of the earth
  • "there are seven continents"
  • "pioneers had to cross the continent on foot"
• the European mainland
  • "Englishmen like to visit the Continent but they wouldn't like to live there"
• 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, including both an extent of mainland and various conventionally associated islands, etc; namely, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australasia/Oceania, North America, South America, and Antarctica.
• 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.
• A large connected expanse of something in general.
• Any continuous tract or area of land; country, connected region.
• Land (as opposed to the water), dry land.
• The body or mass of a celestial body such as the sun or moon.
• Container, vessel, something that holds or contains something else.
• Space, capacity.
• The principal or essential points of something viewed collectively: sum, summary, substance.

Adjective

• having control over urination and defecation

Adjective Satellite

• abstaining from sexual intercourse

Adj

• 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.
• Not interrupted; connected; continuous, whether in time or space.
• Serving to restrain or limit; restraining; opposing.
• Containing or capable of containing.

Synonyms

celibate

Antonyms

incontinent

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