Continent
See also: continent and continnent
English
editProper noun
editthe Continent
- (obsolete) The Old World.
- 1652, Peter Heylin, Cosmographie:
- the whole Continent of Europe, Asia, Africa.
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) Synonym of Europe (including Britain)
- (UK, Ireland) Mainland Europe, as seen from the British Isles.
Derived terms
editNoun
editContinent (plural Continents)
- An Encratite.
Further reading
edit- The Continent on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
German
editNoun
editContinent m (strong, genitive Continentes or Continents, plural Continente)
- Obsolete spelling of Kontinent which was deprecated in 1902 following the Second Orthographic Conference of 1901.
- 1856, Theodor Mommsen, Römische Geschichte [History of Rome], volume 1, Erstes Buch: Bis zur Abschaffung des römischen Königtums, page 4:
- Unsere Aufgabe ist die Darstellung des letzten Acts jenes grossen weltgeschichtlichen Schauspiels, die alte Geschichte der westlicheren unter den beiden Halbinseln, die vom nördlichen Continent aus sich in das Mittelmeer erstrecken.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
editDeclension of Continent [masculine, strong]
singular | plural | ||||
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indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
nominative | ein | der | Continent | die | Continente |
genitive | eines | des | Continentes, Continents | der | Continente |
dative | einem | dem | Continent, Continente1 | den | Continenten |
accusative | einen | den | Continent | die | Continente |
1Now rare, see notes.
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