Usually means: Large, continuous, distinct landmass Earth.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word continent:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. continent, the Continent, the continent: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. continent, continent, the Continent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. continent, continent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. continent, the Continent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Continent, continent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Continent, continent, the continent: Wordnik
  7. continent, the Continent, the continent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Continent, continent: Wiktionary
  9. continent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. continent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. continent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. continent, the continent: Dictionary.com
  13. continent: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. continent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Continent (CFCF album), Continent (The Acacia Strain album), Continent (airline), Continent (disambiguation), Continent (magazine), Continent, The Continent (film), The Continent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Continent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. continent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Continent: Rhymezone
  19. continent, continent (het), continent (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. continent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. continent, the continent: Free Dictionary
  22. The Continent, continent: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. continent: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. continent: Mnemonic Dictionary

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Continent: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Continent, continent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Continent: Medical dictionary
  3. Continent: Brain Injury

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. continent: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. continent: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See continently as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  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.
noun:  Each of the traditional main regions into which the Earth’s land surface is divided, including both an extent of mainland and various conventionally associated islands, etc; namely, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australasia/Oceania, North America, South America, and Antarctica.
noun:  (obsolete in general sense) 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.
noun:  (figurative) A large connected expanse of something in general.
noun:  (obsolete) Any continuous tract or area of land; country, connected region.
noun:  (obsolete) Land (as opposed to the water), dry land.
noun:  (obsolete) The body or mass of a celestial body such as the sun or moon.
noun:  (obsolete) Container, vessel, something that holds or contains something else.
noun:  (obsolete) Space, capacity.
noun:  (obsolete) The principal or essential points of something viewed collectively: sum, summary, substance.
adjective:  Exercising self-restraint; controlled, temperate with respect to one’s bodily needs or passions, especially sex.
adjective:  Having voluntary control over one’s urination or defecation.
adjective:  (obsolete) Not interrupted; connected; continuous, whether in time or space.
adjective:  (obsolete) Serving to restrain or limit; restraining; opposing.
adjective:  (obsolete) Containing or capable of containing.
noun:  (obsolete) The Old World.
noun:  Synonym of Europe (including Britain)
noun:  (UK, Ireland) Mainland Europe, as seen from the British Isles.
noun:  An Encratite.

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