Definizione monolingua

continent

continent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of contine?

continent (plural continents)

1. (obsolete) Land (as opposed to the water).
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.v:

     The carkas with the streame was carried downe, / But thhead fell backeward on the continent.

2. (obsolete in general sense) A large contiguous landmass considered independent of its islands, peninsulas etc. Specifically, the Old World continent of Europe–Asia–Africa. See the Continent.
3. Each of the main continuous land-masses on the earths surface, now generally redarded as seven in number, including their related islands, continental shelfs etc.

continent (comparative more continent, superlative most continent)

1. Exercising self-restraint; controlled, temperate with respect to ones bodily needs or passions.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 119:

     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 be continent, so it was better to marry than to burn with lust.

Definizione dizionario continent

	continente
	each of main land-masses on earth's surface
	A protuberance of the earth's crustal shell, with an area of several million square miles and sufficient elevation so that much of it above sea level. (Source: MGH)

benua

casto

moderato

parte della terra

Altri significati:

(obsolete) Land (as opposed to the water).

exercising continence

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.

(obsolete in general sense) A large contiguous landmass considered independent of its islands, peninsulas etc. See the Continent.