meaning of continent
1. Serving to restrain or limit; restraining; opposing.
2. Exercising restraint as to the indulgence of desires or passions; temperate; moderate.
3. Abstaining from sexual intercourse; exercising restraint upon the sexual appetite; esp. , abstaining from illicit sexual intercourse; chaste.
4. Not interrupted; connected; continuous; as, a continent fever.
5. That which contains anything; a receptacle.
6. One of the grand divisions of land on the globe; the main land; specifically (Phys. Geog. ), a large body of land differing from an island, not merely in its size, but in its structure, which is that of a large basin bordered by mountain chains; as, the continent of North America.
7. the European mainland; "Englishmen like to visit the Continent but they wouldnt like to live
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Related Words
continent | continent-wide | continental | continental army | continental breakfast | continental congress | continental divide | continental drift | continental glacier | continental plan | continental quilt | continental shelf | continental slope | continently |
