Borrowed fromLatin continens continēre ( “ to contain ” ) .
continent (plural continents
One of the maincontinuous landmasses ,separated bywater orgeological features , on thesurface of aplanet , sometimes including itscontinental shelves and theislands on them.1850 Alfred, Lord Tennyson ],In Memoriam Edward Moxon , [ … ] →OCLC page54 :But I should turn mine ears and hearcontinents to be;[ …]
Each of thetraditional mainregions into which theEarth ’sland surface isdivided , including both anextent ofmainland and variousconventionally associated islands, etc; namely,Africa ,Europe ,Asia ,Australasia /Oceania ,North America ,South America , andAntarctica . ( obsolete in general sense) contiguous landmass as opposed to its islands,peninsulas , and so forth;mainland . Also specifically, theOld World continent of Europe–Asia–Africa: seethe Continent .( figurative ) large connected expanse of something in general.( obsolete ) continuous tract orarea of land;country ,connected region .( obsolete ) Land (as opposed to the water),dry land .( obsolete ) body ormass of acelestial body such as thesun ormoon .( obsolete ) Container ,vessel , something thatholds orcontains something else.( obsolete ) Space ,capacity .( obsolete ) principal oressential points of something viewedcollectively :sum ,summary ,substance .c. 1596–1598 William Shakespeare , “The Merchant of Venice ”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , andEd[ ward] Blount , published1623 ,→OCLC [ Act III, scene ii] :[ …] continent and summary of my fortune.
each of main land-masses on earth's surface
Afrikaans:kontinent Albanian:kontinent (sq) m Amharic: አሕጉር ( ʾäḥgur ) Antillean Creole:kontinan Arabic:قَارَّة f ( qārra ) Hijazi Arabic: قارَّة f ( qārra, gārra ) Aragonese: continent m Armenian: մայրցամաք (hy) ( mayrcʻamakʻ ) ,աշխարհամաս (hy) ( ašxarhamas ) Assamese:মহাদেশ ( mohadex ) Asturian:continente (ast) m Azerbaijani: qitə Bashkir:ҡитға ( qitğa ) Basque:kontinente (eu) Belarusian:кантыне́нт m ( kantynjént ) ,мацяры́к m ( macjarýk ) ,кантынэ́нт m ( kantynént ) ( Taraškievica ) Bengali: মহাদেশ (bn) ( mohadeś ) Bhojpuri:महाद्वीप ( mahādvīp ) Breton:kevandir (br) m Bulgarian: контине́нт (bg) m ( kontinént ) Burmese: တိုက် (my) ( tuik ) Carpathian Rusyn:контіне́нт m ( kontinént ) Catalan: continent (ca) m Chinese: Cantonese: 大陸 / 大陆 ( daai6 luk6 ) Eastern Min:大陸 / 大陆 ( dâi-lṳ̆k ) Hakka:大陸 / 大陆 ( thai-liu̍k ) Hokkien:大陸 / 大陆 (zh-min-nan) ( tāi-lio̍k ) Mandarin:大陸 / 大陆 (zh) ( dàlù ) Wu:大陸 / 大陆 ( 6 da-loq) Cornish:brastir m Czech: kontinent (cs) m , světadíl (cs) m , pevnina (cs) f Danish: kontinent (da) n , verdensdel c Dhivehi:please add this translation if you can Dutch: werelddeel (nl) n , continent (nl) n Esperanto: kontinento (eo) Estonian:maailmajagu manner (et) ,mander Faroese:heimspartur m Finnish: maanosa (fi) ,manner (fi) French:continent (fr) m Friulian: continent m Galician: continente (gl) m Georgian: კონტინენტი ( ḳonṭinenṭi ) ,მატერიკი ( maṭeriḳi ) German:Kontinent (de) m , Erdteil (de) m Greek: ήπειρος (el) f ( ípeiros ) Ancient: ἤπειρος f ( ḗpeiros ) Gujarati: ખંડ ( khaṇḍ ) ,મહાદ્વીપ ( mahādvīp ) Hebrew:יַבֶּשֶׁת (he) f ( yabéshet ) Hindi: महाद्वीप (hi) m ( mahādvīp ) ,खंड (hi) m ( khaṇḍ ) ,भूखंड m ( bhūkhaṇḍ ) ,महादेश (hi) m ( mahādeś ) Hungarian: kontinens (hu) ,földrész (hu) ,világrész (hu) Icelandic:heimsálfa (is) f Indonesian: benua (id) ,kontinen (id) Interlingua:continente Irish:mór-roinn f Italian: continente (it) m Japanese: 大陸 (ja) ( たいりく, tairiku ) Javanese:bawana (jv) Kannada:ಖಂಡ (kn) ( khaṇḍa ) Kazakh:құрлық (kk) ( qūrlyq ) Khmer:ទ្វីប (km) ( tviip ) Korean:대륙(大陸) (ko) ( daeryuk ) Kumyk:континент ( kontinent ) Kurdish:Northern Kurdish:qite (ku) ,parzemîn (ku) f , qare (ku) f Kyrgyz: континент (ky) ( kontinent ) ,материк ( materik ) Lao:ທະວີບ (lo) ( tha wīp ) Latvian:kontinents m Lithuanian: žemynas (lt) m , kontinentas (lt) m Macedonian: контине́нт m ( kontinént ) Malay: benua (ms) Malayalam:ഭൂഖണ്ഡം (ml) ( bhūkhaṇḍaṁ ) ,വൻകര ( vaṉkara ) Maltese:kontinent m Manchu: ᠵᡠᠪᡴᡳ ( jubki ) Maori:tuawhenua rawhaki paparahi Marathi:खंड ( khaṇḍa ) Minangkabau:banua Mirandese:cuntinente Mizo:khawmualpui Mongolian:Cyrillic:тив (mn) ( tiv ) ,эх газар ( ex gazar ) Nepali:महादेश ( mahādeś ) Norman:continnent m ( Jersey ) Northwestern Ojibwa: gichi-aki Norwegian:Bokmål:kontinent (no) n Nynorsk: kontinent n Occitan: continent (oc) m Odia: ମହାଦେଶ (or) ( mahādeśa ) Old Javanese:wanwa Pashto:قاره (ps) f ( qāra ) Persian: Dari: قَارَّه ( qārra ) Iranian Persian:قارِّه ( ğârre ) Piedmontese:continent m Plautdietsch: Weltdeel n Polish: kontynent (pl) m Portuguese: continente (pt) m Punjabi: Gurmukhi: ਮਹਾਂਦੀਪ m ( mahāndīp ) Romanian: continent (ro) n Russian: контине́нт (ru) m ( kontinént ) ,матери́к (ru) m ( materík ) Sanskrit: द्वीप (sa) n ( dvīpa ) ,महाद्वीपा n ( mahādvīpā ) Scottish Gaelic: mòr-roinn f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: контѝнент m Roman: kontìnent (sh) m Silesian: kůntynynt m Sindhi: کَنڊُ (sd) m ( kandu ) Sinhalese: මහාද්වීප (si) ( mahādwīpa ) Slovak:svetadiel (sk) m , kontinent m , pevnina f Slovene: celina (sl) f , kontinent (sl) m Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: kontinent m Upper Sorbian: kontinent m Spanish: continente (es) m Swahili: bara (sw) Swedish:kontinent (sv) c Tagalog: kontinente (tl) ,lupalop sanlupain Tajik:қитъа ( qitʾa ) ,континент (tg) ( kontinent ) ,хушкӣ ( xuški ) ,материк ( materik ) Tamil:கண்டம் (ta) ( kaṇṭam ) Tatar:кыйтга (tt) ( qıytga ) Telugu:ఖండం (te) ( khaṇḍaṁ ) Thai:ทวีป (th) ( tá-wîip ) Turkish:kıta (tr) Turkmen:materik kontinent Ukrainian:контине́нт (uk) m ( kontynént ) ,матери́к m ( materýk ) ,суходіл (uk) m ( suxodil ) Urdu: بَرِّاَعْظَم (ur) m ( barr-i-a'zam ) ,قارَّہ m ( qārra ) Uyghur: قىتئە ( qit'e ) ,ماتېرىك ( matërik ) ,كونتىنېنت ( kontinënt ) Uzbek:qitʼa (uz) ,kontinent (uz) ,materik (uz) Vietnamese:đại lục (vi) (大陸 châu lục lục địa (vi) Volapük:kontinän (vo) Walloon:please add this translation if you can Welsh:cyfandir (cy) m Yiddish: קאָנטינענט m ( kontinent ) ,וועלטטייל m ( veltteyl )
FromMiddle English contynent Old French continent Latin continentem ( “ continuous; holding together ” ) , present participle ofcontinēre ( “ to contain ” ) .
continent (comparative morecontinent ,superlative mostcontinent )
Exercisingself-restraint ;controlled ,temperate with respect to one’sbodily needs orpassions , especiallysex .c. 1603–1604 William Shakespeare , “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice ”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , andEd[ ward] Blount , published1623 ,→OCLC [ Act IV, scene i] :Have acontinent forbearance till the speed of his rage goes slower.
1926 T.E. Lawrence ,Seven Pillars of Wisdom , New York: Anchor, published1991 , page219 :Their strength was the strength of men geographically beyond temptation: the poverty of Arabia made them simple,continent , enduring.
2009 Diarmaid MacCulloch ,A History of Christianity , Penguin, published2010 , page119 :A celibate himself, he was of the opinion that marriage was something of a concession to human frailty, to save from fornication those who could not becontinent , so it was better to marry than to burn with lust.
Havingvoluntary control over one’surination ordefecation . ( obsolete ) interrupted ;connected ;continuous , whether in time or space.acontinent fever
c. 1587–1588 Christopher Marlowe ],Tamburlaine the Great. [ … ] The First Part [ … ] [ … ] [ R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, [ … ] 1592 ,→OCLC Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press,1973 ,→ISBN Act I, scene i :Affrike andEurope bordering on your land,continent to your Dominions:[ …]
1843 The Origin of the North American Indians :The northeast part of Asia is, if notcontinent with the west side of America, yet certainly it is the least disjoined by sea of all that coast.
( obsolete ) restrain orlimit ; restraining; opposing.c. 1595–1596 (date written)i.e. ,William Shakespeare ],A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. [ … ] [ … ] W[ illiam] W[ hite] forCut[ h] bert Burby , published1598 ,→OCLC Shakspere’s Loves Labours Lost (Shakspere-Quarto Facsimiles;no. 5 ), London: W[ illiam] Griggs, [ … ] [ 1880] →OCLC [Act I, scene i] :There did I ſee that low ſpirited Swaine, [...] hightCoſtard , (Clow[ne]. O mee) ſorted and conſorted contrary to thy eſtabliſhed proclaymed Edict andcontinent Cannon; Which with, o with, but with this I paſſion to ſay wherewith: /Clo [wne ]. With a Wench.
c. 1599–1602 William Shakespeare , “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke ”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , andEd[ ward] Blount , published1623 ,→OCLC [ Act IV, scene iv] :Have acontinent forbearance till the speed of his rage goes slower.
( obsolete ) Containing orcapable of containing.Borrowed fromLatin continentem
IPA (key ) : /kontiˈnen/ Rhymes:-en Syllabification:con‧ti‧nent continent m
continent Borrowed fromLatin continentem
continent m (plural continents
continent IPA (key ) : /ˌkɔn.tiˈnɛnt/ Hyphenation:con‧ti‧nent Rhymes:-ɛnt Borrowed fromFrench continent Latin continēns
continent n (plural continenten
continent ( landmass ) Synonym: werelddeel Ultimately fromLatin continēns Thisetymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
continent (notcomparable )
( chiefly medicine ) continent ( obsolete ) continent restrained Borrowed fromLatin continentem
continent m (plural continents
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third-person plural present active indicative ofcontineō continent m (feminine singular continente masculine plural continens feminine plural continentes
continent ( exercising restraint ) Antonym: incontinent FromLatin continēns
continent m (plural continents
continent Borrowed fromLatin continens French continent
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