Continent

Noun

 * 1) Each of the main continuous land-masses on the earth's surface, now generally redarded as seven in number, including their related islands, continental shelfs etc.
 * 2)  Land (as opposed to the water).
 * 3)  A large contiguous landmass considered independent of its islands, peninsulas etc. See the Continent.

Adjective

 * 1) exercising continence

Adjectives for Continent
rich; new; powerful; remote; sunken; commanding; unexhausted; sunny; undiscovered; virgin; unborn; unmapped; orbed; infinite.

Verbs for Continent
abound on—; bound—; communicate with —; cover—; discover—; divide—; explore—; exploit—; govern—; inhabit—; populate—; rule—; sail for—; span—; speed  across—;  study—;  tranquilize—; travel—; traverse—; wage on—.

Antonyms for Continent
incontinent

Derived terms
continental; supercontinent

Hyponyms
Africa; America; Antarctica; Asia; Australia; Europe; Eurasia; Gondwana; Laurasia; North America; Oceania; Pangaea; South America

Thesaurus
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

Noun

 * Arabic: قارة
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri: qitə
 * Basque: kontinente
 * Breton: kevandir
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: continent
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: werelddeel,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:, manner
 * Faroese: heimspartur
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: יבשת (yabeshet)
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:, , világrész
 * Icelandic:


 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: mór-roinn
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 대륙 (大陸)
 * Latvian: kontinents
 * Lithuanian: ,
 * Macedonian:
 * Malayalam: ഭൂഖണ്ഡം (bhookhandam), വന്‍കര (van kara)
 * Norwegian:
 * Novial: kontinente
 * Persian: (ghâreh)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Sindhi: (kandu)
 * Slovene: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese: (大陸)

Adjective

 * Bulgarian:, сдържан
 * Norwegian:


 * Telugu: ఖండము

Noun

 * 1) continent

Noun

 * 1) continent

Noun

 * 1) continent

Derived terms

 * continental

Etymology
From continens:,  continent:.

Noun

 * 1) continent

Related terms

 * continental