How to pronounce “continent”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (geography, geology) One of the main contiguous landmasses, separated by water or geological features, on the surface of a planet, sometimes including its continental shelves and the islands on them.
• (sociogeography) Each of the traditional main regions into which the Earth’s land surface is divided, including both an extent of mainland and various conventionally associated islands, etc; namely, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australasia/Oceania, North America, South America, and Antarctica.
• (obsolete in general sense) A large contiguous landmass as opposed to its islands, peninsulas, and so forth; mainland. Also specifically, the Old World continent of Europe–Asia–Africa: see the Continent.
• (figurative) A large connected expanse of something in general.
• (obsolete) Any continuous tract or area of land; country, connected region.
• (obsolete) Land (as opposed to the water), dry land.
• (obsolete) The body or mass of a celestial body such as the sun or moon.
• (obsolete) Container, vessel, something that holds or contains something else.
• (obsolete) Space, capacity.
• (obsolete) The principal or essential points of something viewed collectively: sum, summary, substance.
• [Adjective]
• Exercising self-restraint; controlled, temperate with respect to one’s bodily needs or passions, especially sex.
• Having voluntary control over one’s urination or defecation.
• (obsolete) Not interrupted; connected; continuous, whether in time or space.
• (obsolete) Serving to restrain or limit; restraining; opposing.
• (obsolete) Containing or capable of containing.

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