continent

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  1. noun One of the principal land masses of the earth, usually regarded as including Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America.
  2. noun The mainland of Europe. Used with the.
  3. adjective Exercising continence.

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  • And I want to say that some of the best people to invest in on the continent are the women. —  Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on doing business in Africa
  • QUESTION: Did the framework - as the concept of the general framework for the continent was abandoned because of difficulties that you might face from several countries? —  NewsBlaze.com Current News - Top Stories
  • The initial furore over the establishment of a US military command for the continent was a case in point, as was the war of words over Robert Mugabe's regime in Zimbabwe, which many Africans perceived as neo-imperialist meddling by Washington. —  AllAfrica News: Latest
  • So what on our continent should be the central focus of attention for the Obama government? —  The Moderate Voice
  • The northern region of this continent is also a home to a plethora of wonderful places. —  MyLinkVault Newest Links
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  1. Latin (terra) continēns, continent-, continuous (land), present participle of continēre, to hold together; see contain.
  2. Middle English, from Latin continēns, present participle of continēre, to restrain; see contain.

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  1. I. a. from Middle English continent, from Old French (and F.) continent = Spanish Portuguese Italian continente, from Latin continen(t-)s, holding back, temperate, moderate, also hanging together, continuous, uninterrupted, present participle of continere, hold back, check, also hold together: see contain. II. n. In def. II., 3, early modern English continente = French continent = Spanish Portuguese Italian continente = Dutch kontinent = German continent, kontinent = Danish kontinent, from Middle Latin New Latin continen(t-)s, a continent, that is, a continuous extent of land, in Middle Latin applied also to a broad continuous field, properly adjective (sc. L. terra, land, or ager, field), Latin continen(t-)s, continuous, unbroken: see above. In defs. 1 and 2 the noun is directly from the adjective
 

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