continent: Meaning and Definition of

con•ti•nent

1. one of the main landmasses of the globe, usually reckoned as seven in number (Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Australia, and Antarctica).
2. a comparable landmass on another planet.
3. the mainland, as distinguished from islands or peninsulas.
4. the mainland of Europe, as distinguished from the British Isles.
5. a continuous tract or extent, as of land.
6. something that serves as a container or boundary.

1. exercising or characterized by restraint in relation to the desires or passions and esp. to sexual desires; temperate.
2. able to control urinary and fecal discharge.
3. containing; being a container; capacious.
4. restraining or restrictive.
5. continuous; forming an uninterrupted tract, as land.