continent
Definitions of continent
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one of the large landmasses of the earthsynonyms: werelddeelexamples:Afrikathe second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian OceanAntarcticaan extremely cold continent at the south pole almost entirely below the Antarctic Circle; covered by an ice cap up to 13,000 feet deepEuropathe 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles
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