Continent

(Redirected from the Continent)
See also: continent and continnent

English edit

Proper noun edit

the Continent

  1. (obsolete) The Old World.
    • 1652, Peter Heylin, Cosmographie:
      the whole Continent of Europe, Asia, Africa.
  2. Synonym of Europe (including Britain)
  3. (UK) Mainland Europe, as seen from the British Isles.

Derived terms edit

Noun edit

Continent (plural Continents)

  1. An Encratite.

Further reading edit

German edit

Noun edit

Continent m (strong, genitive Continentes or Continents, plural Continente)

  1. Obsolete spelling of Kontinent which was deprecated in 1902 following the Second Orthographic Conference of 1901.

Declension edit