Noun

continent (plural continents)

  1. (obsolete) Land (as opposed to the water).
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.v:
      The carkas with the streame was carried downe, / But th'head fell backeward on the continent.
  2. (obsolete in general sense) A large contiguous landmass considered independent of its islands, peninsulas etc. See the Continent.
  3. Each of the main continuous land-masses on the earth's surface, now generally redarded as seven in number, including their related islands, continental shelfs etc.

Derived terms

From Wiktionary under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Sat Jul 31 05:21:44 2010

A continent is one of several large landmasses on Earth. They are generally identified by convention rather than any strict criteria, with seven regions commonly regarded as continents – they are (from largest in size to smallest): Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia.

Plate tectonics is the geological process and study of the movement, collision and division of continents, earlier known as continental drift.

The term the Continent may also refer to mainland Europe, i.e., excluding the British Isles.

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How possible would it be to move Canada to a different continent?
Q. Could we blast a fault across the border, then use jet engines to move the entire continent?
Asked by Dars - Tue Nov 25 23:13:13 2008 - - 8 Answers - 0 Comments

A. We dont have the funding, precision-based firepower, or ethical support to accomplish such a feat. And how exactly do u plan 2 find jet engines strong enough to move Canada. Even if u pulled it off u would put a lot of the upper US below sea level. And you generate an earthquake of biblical proportions which in turn given the new shoreline produces montrous tsunamis and lets not forget the new supervolcano that will be created from this questionable endeavor. There u just got powned RTARD!!! LOL bitch
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Do African Americans believe that their ancestors should have gotten a free ride to the New Continent?
Q. Even white people had to pay for their voyage to the New Continent many of them did so by becoming indentured servants. Why can't people understand just how right Rush Limbaugh is?
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Why do the people call America to the United States if America is only a continent?
Q. If we look the name of USA then we see United States of America. From my point of view the country is United States and it is located in America, but is not America as a country, because there isn t any country called America, only a continent. I know that because I am from Spain and Cristobal Columbus discovered the continent, not any country.
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A. As a Canadian it bothers me when people refer to the United States of America as simply "America", because it suggests there is nothing else on the continents.
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