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Meaning of CONTINENT in English

Serving to restrain or limit; restraining; opposing.

Use in sentences of CONTINENT

    Meaning of CONTINENT in English

    • Serving to restrain or limit; restraining; opposing.
    • Exercising restraint as to the indulgence of desires or passions; temperate; moderate.
    • Abstaining from sexual intercourse; exercising restraint upon the sexual appetite; esp., abstaining from illicit sexual intercourse; chaste.
    • Not interrupted; connected; continuous; as, a continent fever.
    • That which contains anything; a receptacle.
    • 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.

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