continent Englisch Deutsch:
continent Definition:
- A continent is one of several very large landmasses on Earth. Generally identified by convention rather than any strict criteria, up to seven regions are commonly regarded as continents. Ordered from largest in size to smallest, they are: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia. In geology, areas of continental crust include regions covered with water.
| Continent (a.) Serving to restrain or limit |
| Continent (a.) Exercising restraint as to the indulgence of desires or passions |
| Continent (a.) Abstaining from sexual intercourse |
| Continent (a.) Not interrupted |
| Continent (a.) That which contains anything |
| Continent (a.) One of the grand divisions of land on the globe |
| Continent the European mainland, "Englishmen like to visit the Continent but they wouldn't like to live there" |
| Antarctica / Antarctic continent an extremely cold continent at the south pole almost entirely below the Antarctic Circle, covered by an ice cap up to , feet deep, "Antarctica is twice the size of Australia" |
| continent one of the large landmasses of the earth, "there are seven continents", "pioneers had to cross the continent on foot" |
| celibate / continent abstaining from sexual intercourse, "celibate priests" |
| continent having control over urination and defecation |
| continent-wide involving the entire continent |
continent Synonyme:
| continent Africa America Antipodes Apostolic Asia Asia Major Asia Minor Australasia East Eastern Hemisphere Encratic Eurasia Europe Far East Lenten Levant Middle East Near East New World Occident Oceania Old World Orient Platonic Pythagorean Rechabite Shaker Spartan Stoic West Western Hemisphere abstemious abstentious abstinent ascetic bridled celibate chaste curbed down under eastland fruitarian inhibited intact landmass maidenly nephalistic on the wagon pure restrained sexually abstinent sober sworn off teetotal temperate the old country vegetarian vestal virgin virginal |