continent

Etymology 1
Borrowed from, noun use of present participle of.

Noun

 * 1) One of the main continuous landmasses, separated by water or geological features, on the surface of a planet, sometimes including its continental shelves and the islands on them.
 * 2) Each of the traditional main regions into which the Earth’s land surface is divided, now generally regarded as seven in number, each usually including both an extent of mainland and various conventionally associated islands, etc.
 * 3)  A large contiguous landmass as opposed to its islands, peninsulas, and so forth; mainland. Also specifically, the Old World continent of Europe–Asia–Africa: see the Continent.
 * 4)  A large connected expanse of something in general.
 * 5)  Any continuous tract or area of land; country, connected region.
 * 6)  Land (as opposed to the water), dry land.
 * 7)  The body or mass of a celestial body such as the sun or moon.
 * 8)  Container, vessel, something that holds or contains something else.
 * 9)  Space, capacity.
 * 10)  The principal or essential points of something viewed collectively: sum, summary, substance.
 * 1)  Container, vessel, something that holds or contains something else.
 * 2)  Space, capacity.
 * 3)  The principal or essential points of something viewed collectively: sum, summary, substance.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: kontinent
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: አሕጉር
 * Antillean Creole: kontinan
 * Arabic: قَارَّة
 * Hijazi Arabic: قارَّة
 * Armenian: ,
 * Assamese: মহাদেশ
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani: qitə
 * Bashkir: ҡитға
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: кантыне́нт, мацяры́к, кантынэ́нт
 * Bengali:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Carpathian Rusyn: контіне́нт
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 大陸
 * Eastern Min: 大陸
 * Hakka: 大陸
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin:
 * Wu: 大陸
 * Cornish: brastir
 * Czech:, ,
 * Danish:, verdensdel
 * Dhivehi:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: maailmajagu,, mander
 * Faroese: heimspartur
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Friulian: continent
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: კონტინენტი, მატერიკი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἤπειρος
 * Gujarati: ખંડ, મહાદ્વીપ
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, , भूखंड,
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Interlingua: continente
 * Irish: mór-roinn
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese:
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kumyk: континент
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:, ,
 * Kyrgyz:, материк
 * Lao:
 * Latvian: kontinents
 * Lithuanian: ,
 * Macedonian: контине́нт
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam:, വന്‍കര
 * Maltese: kontinent
 * Manchu: ᠵᡠᠪᡴᡳ
 * Maori: tuawhenua, rawhaki, paparahi
 * Marathi: खंड
 * Minangkabau: banua
 * Mirandese: cuntinente
 * Mizo: khawmualpui
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:, эх газар
 * Nepali: महादेश
 * Norman: continnent
 * Northwestern Ojibwa: gichi-aki
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: kontinent
 * Occitan:
 * Odia:
 * Old Javanese: wanwa
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Dari:
 * Iranian Persian:
 * Piedmontese: continent
 * Plautdietsch: Weltdeel
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi:
 * Gurmukhi: ਮਹਾਂਦੀਪ
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit:, महाद्वीपा
 * Scottish Gaelic: mòr-roinn
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: контѝнент
 * Roman:
 * Silesian: kůntynynt
 * Sindhi:
 * Sinhalese:
 * Slovak:, kontinent, pevnina
 * Slovene: ,
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: kontinent
 * Upper Sorbian: kontinent
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:, lupalop, sanlupain
 * Tajik: қитъа,, хушкӣ, материк
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: materik, kontinent
 * Ukrainian:, матери́к,
 * Urdu:, قارَّہ
 * Uyghur: قىتئە, ماتېرىك, كونتىنېنت
 * Uzbek:, ,
 * Vietnamese: (大陸), châu lục,
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: קאָנטינענט, וועלטטייל

Etymology 2
From, from , from , present participle of.

Adjective

 * 1) Exercising self-restraint; controlled, temperate with respect to one’s bodily needs or passions, especially sex.
 * 2) Having voluntary control over one’s urination or defecation.
 * 3)  Not interrupted; connected; continuous, whether in time or space.
 * 4)  Serving to restrain or limit; restraining; opposing.
 * 5)  Containing or capable of containing.
 * 1)  Not interrupted; connected; continuous, whether in time or space.
 * 2)  Serving to restrain or limit; restraining; opposing.
 * 3)  Containing or capable of containing.
 * 1)  Serving to restrain or limit; restraining; opposing.
 * 2)  Containing or capable of containing.
 * 1)  Containing or capable of containing.
 * 1)  Containing or capable of containing.
 * 1)  Containing or capable of containing.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Latvian: savaldīgs
 * Mizo: insum, insumthei
 * Norwegian:
 * Tagalog: mapagpigil, mahinahon
 * Telugu:

Etymology
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Etymology 1
Borrowed from, from.

Noun

 * 1)   landmass

Etymology 2
Ultimately from.

Adjective

 * , morally restrained
 * , morally restrained

Etymology
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Adjective

 * 1)  exercising restraint

Etymology
From.

Etymology
and/or from.