Continent

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1. Adjective

Serving to restrain or limit; restraining; opposing.

2. Adjective

Exercising restraint as to the indulgence of desires or passions; temperate; moderate.

3. Adjective

Abstaining from sexual intercourse; exercising restraint upon the sexual appetite; esp., abstaining from illicit sexual intercourse; chaste.

4. Adjective

Not interrupted; connected; continuous; as, a continent fever.

5. Adjective

That which contains anything; a receptacle.

6. Adjective

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.

7. Noun

one of the large landmasses of the earth; "there are seven continents"; "pioneers had to cross the continent on foot"
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