See also: continent and continnent

English

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Proper noun

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the Continent

  1. (obsolete) The Old World.
    • 1652, Peter Heylin, Cosmographie:
      the whole Continent of Europe, Asia, Africa.
  2. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) Synonym of Europe (including Britain)
  3. (UK, Ireland) Mainland Europe, as seen from the British Isles.

Derived terms

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Noun

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Continent (plural Continents)

  1. An Encratite.

Further reading

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German

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Noun

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Continent m (strong, genitive Continentes or Continents, plural Continente)

  1. Obsolete spelling of Kontinent which was deprecated in 1902 following the Second Orthographic Conference of 1901.

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