[
US
/ˈkɑntənənt/
]
[ UK /kˈɒntɪnənt/ ]
[ UK /kˈɒntɪnənt/ ]
NOUN
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one of the large landmasses of the earth
there are seven continents
pioneers had to cross the continent on foot
ADJECTIVE
- having control over urination and defecation
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abstaining from sexual intercourse
celibate priests
How To Use continent In A Sentence
- A lot of the foods that we connect with African-Americans, whether totemically, whether positively or negatively, are indeed and in fact foods from the continent. NPR Topics: News
- The composition of displaced terranes ranges from that of typical oceanic crust to significantly less dense granitic rock with clear continental affinities.
- AMEN: Grassroots Football is an incredible interactive roadbook from photographer Jessica Hilltout that depicts the essence of soccer as experienced throughout the African continent. Daniel Maree: Six Positively Promising World Cup Campaigns You Might Have Missed
- Thousands died on the seas while they were being shipped like caged cattle between continents.
- Some archaeologists have been championing the culture of pre-Roman Britain for some time and the Shropshire road may confirm that traders were bringing back continental innovations to add to existing native achievements in art and engineering. Letters: Native culture of pre-Roman Britain
- On Continental Europe no one ever pays a blind bit of notice to them.
- British postal workers lag behind their continental counterparts. Times, Sunday Times
- The upper layer of a plate is composed of either oceanic or continental crust or both.
- Like a lacertine Vicar of Bray, he varies incontinently from buff to blue, and from blue back to orange again, under stress of circumstances. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
- The established idea that granitoid magmas ascend through the continental crust as diapirs is being increasingly questioned by igneous and structural geologists.