The Collaborative International Dictionary
Continent \Con"ti*nent\, n. [L. continens, prop., a holding together: cf. F. continent. See Continent, a.]
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That which contains anything; a receptacle. [Obs.]
The smaller continent which we call a pipkin.
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One of the grand divisions of land on the globe; the main land; specifically (Phys. Geog.), a large body of land differing from an island, not merely in its size, but in its structure, which is that of a large basin bordered by mountain chains; as, the continent of North America.
Note: The continents are now usually regarded as six in number: North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia. But other large bodies of land are also reffered to as continents; as, the Antarctic continent; the continent of Greenland. Europe, Asia, and Africa are often grouped together as the Eastern Continent, and North and South America as the Western Continent.
The Continent, the main land of Europe, as distinguished from the islands, especially from England.
Wikipedia
The Continent is a 2014 Chinese road trip comedy film directed and written by Han Han. The film was released on July 24, 2014.
This movie was produced by Beijing Lorry Limited, Hangzhou Guomai Media Limited, and Bona Film Group Limited. Han Han, the famous youth author in China mainland, is this movie’s screenwriter and director. Bolin Chen and William Feng are the leading roles. This movie is talking about several young men who lived in an island which is located in East Sea have planned a journey to across the China mainland, and the experiences they have gone through finally decided the ends of their destinies.
The filming process was started on February 14, 2014. The movie team had found views from five places, which were Shanghai, Xichang, Chifeng, Mount Putuo in Zhoushan, and Dongji Island. It was finished on May 26, 2014. One of the leading roles, William Feng, was injured when the filming process was nearly finished. On July 24, 2014, the movie was shown in China mainland.
Usage examples of "the continent".
Now, in the island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire, which had rule over the whole island and several others, as well as over parts of the continent.
Like much of the continent's architecture, the mayor's house was a squat construction of heavy basalt rocks.
With our help, and the secret help of the Onnda, the Ramahan drove them from the northern continent, repelled them when time and again they tried to regain the continent by ship.
In the beginning of the nineteenth century, on the continent of Europe, a man who did not believe in the divine right of his king to rule him as he or his Prime Minister saw fit, was a ``heretic,'' and it was the duty of all loyal citizens to denounce him to the nearest policeman and see that he got punished.
The Weyrwoman had shown him only a small section of the continent when she and F'lar had tricked him into settling for only the land between the two rivers.
Most were craggy, with no place for a holding of any sort, except near the summits, but they had supported the same variety of fruit and timber trees that grew on this part of the continent.
You know as well as I do that once you uproot slavery in half the continent it's bound to collapse everywhere else.
From the hair color and what little else Adrian could discern about the battered figure, he thought he came from the northern part of the continent.