continent
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- /ˈkɒntɪnənt/
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continente
- Can the art of Africa be modern if the continent is not modern?
- spread across the continent
- live on the continent
- part of the continent
The second one is the Deccan Traps and continent wide volcanicity.
- The second one is the Deccan Traps and continent wide volcanicity.
- I think it's too much to give them the whole continent, you know.
- This is the same story across the continent of Africa today.
- But what you're saying refutes that in every continent of this planet, right?
- Explain to us Americans why an entire continent needs a parliament.
- So these two things had to be brought together across continents to create bronze.
- Malazan isn't attempting to impose its will on these continents in this world.
- As for why the continent went cold, well, it's a bit complex.
- Suppose your continent loses electricity for a year.
- Each is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
Examples
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And I'm talking about here on this continent, North America.
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This is the same story across the continent of Africa today.
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I think it's too much to give them the whole continent, you know.
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Back then most of this continent had been carved up by European powers.
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What is going on right now in our continent is a huge awakening.
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Australia's native people first arrived on the continent around 50,000 years ago.
Academic text (2011) -
Australia was one of the last continents to be discovered and colonized by Europeans.
Academic text (1990) -
Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
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Among the first casualties of the crisis were the continent's extensive social-welfare programs.
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Colin O'Brady just became the first person ever to cross the continent of Antarctica alone without any assistance.
Synonyms
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A large connected area of land that is part of the Earth
Compounds
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Etymology
Continent comes from the Latin continere, made of con- and tenere, where tenere means 'to hold'. A continent is like a very large land area 'held together' as one piece, which is why the same root appears in contain.