continent
adjective
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continent
noun
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Synonyms & Antonyms for continent
Synonyms: Adjective
abstemious, abstentious, abstinent, self-abnegating, self-denying, sober, temperate
Synonyms: Noun
Antonyms: Adjective
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Examples of continent in a Sentence
Adjective
Most children are continent by age three. a religious sect that expects its unmarried members to be completely celibate and its married adherents to maintain continent relationshipsNoun
The book provides information on hotels in Britain and on the Continent. Europe and Asia are sometimes considered together to be one continent.
Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
Greenland is the largest island in the world that isn’t also a continent, so that’s a lot of ground to cover. — Hannah Sampson, Washington Post, "Everything travelers need to know about Greenland (which is not being bought by the U.S.)," 27 Aug. 2019 When his first child, Jack, was born in 2016, Watson was a continent away in the middle of a two-month stay in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, serving as the game-experience manager for the majority of basketball games played in the 2016 Summer Olympics. — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "He already mastered the Olympics, and now Fiserv Forum's director of in-game entertainment heads to China alongside Bucks players for FIBA," 20 Aug. 2019 Some crew members had seized the opportunity to take in the stark beauty of a continent that had no countries, currency, cities or hotels. — Author: Richard Read, Anchorage Daily News, "Meet the icebreaker Polar Star, the neglected stepchild of the U.S. military industrial complex," 17 Aug. 2019 Remember, America is a continent, a big one, not a country. — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, "Letter: People from Latin America are as American as we are," 5 Aug. 2019 India is like a continent, given its great diversity. — Sangeeta Tanwar, Quartz India, "The “Zara of small-town India” is unfazed by Walmart and Amazon," 23 July 2019 Whitman invented a poetry specific to this language and open to the kinds of experience, peculiar to democracy in a polyethnic society on a vast continent, that might otherwise be mute. — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, "How to Celebrate Walt Whitman’s Two-Hundredth Birthday," 17 June 2019 But there’s a continent-sized gap in our knowledge about our collective past that scientists are only now starting to fill in. — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, "Rising Seas Swallowed Countless Archaeological Sites. Scientists Want Them Back," 20 May 2019 Internet users in Africa now outnumber America’s population by some estimates, but reaching that exploding market is among the continent’s most pressing business challenges. — Washington Post, "The ‘Amazon of Africa’ faces a big challenge: No addresses," 4 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'continent.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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