continent

Adjective
  1. Having control over urination and defecation (synset 300594510)
  2. Abstaining from sexual intercourse (synset 300362030)
    "celibate priests"
    similar to: chaste - morally pure (especially not having experienced sexual intercourse)
    same as: celibate
Noun
  1. One of the large landmasses of the earth (synset 109277520)
    "there are seven continents"; "pioneers had to cross the continent on foot"
    is a type of: land mass, landmass - a large continuous extent of land
    specific instances:
    • africa - the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean
    • antarctic continent, antarctica - an extremely cold continent at the south pole almost entirely below the Antarctic Circle; covered by an ice cap up to 13,000 feet deep
    • asia - the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations
    • australia - the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean
    • eurasia - the land mass formed by the continents of Europe and Asia
    • europe - the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles
    • gondwanaland - a hypothetical continent that (according to plate tectonic theory) broke up later into India and Australia and Africa and South America and Antarctica
    • laurasia - a hypothetical continent that (according to plate tectonic theory) broke up later into North America and Europe and Asia
    • north america - a continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama
    • pangaea, pangea - (plate tectonics) a hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland
    • south america - a continent in the western hemisphere connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama
    has:
    • craton - the part of a continent that is stable and forms the central mass of the continent; typically Precambrian
    • subcontinent - a large and distinctive landmass (as India or Greenland) that is a distinct part of some continent
  2. The European mainland (synset 108714551)
    "Englishmen like to visit the Continent but they wouldn't like to live there"
    is an instance of: mainland - the main land mass of a country or continent; as distinguished from an island or peninsula
    is a part of: europe - the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles

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