Crossword-Solution: CONTINENT 9 letters, 36 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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

We have 36 clues for the answer “CONTINENT”

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Africa, e.g. 1 answer
Africa or Asia 1 answer
Australia, for one. 1 answer
BOWEL functions, control of 1 answer
Europe perhaps able to control movement 1 answer
Section of the globe 1 answer
the European mainland 1 answer
Big piece of crust? 2 answers
BLADDER control 2 answers
Exercising self-restraint sexually 2 answers
Large body of land. 2 answers
Large landmass 2 answers
Division of land 3 answers
One of a world seven 3 answers
Asia 4 answers
Landmass 5 answers
Mainland 7 answers
Map feature. 7 answers
asexual 7 answers
Africa 7 answers
fatherland 11 answers
Antarctica 11 answers
abstaining 13 answers
Abstinent 15 answers
motherland 21 answers
America 25 answers
Abstemious 25 answers
Virginal 27 answers
Abstainer 35 answers
ascetic 45 answers
Virgin 51 answers
Temperate 51 answers
Province 67 answers
Region 69 answers
Domain 76 answers
"___ Country." 86 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CONTINENT (5)

Beyond this flood a frozen Continent Lies dark and wilde, beat with perpetual storms Of Whirlwind and dire Hail, which on firm land Thaws not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems Of ancient pile; all else deep snow and ice, A gulf profound as that _Serbonian_ Bog Betwixt _Damiata_ and mount _Casius_ old, Where Armies whole have sunk: the parching Air Burns frore, and cold performs th’ effect of Fire.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
Ray could talk well about the large part of the continent over which he had been knocked about, and Johnny was appreciative.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
The white and Indian communities are substantially better off than other segments of the population, often approaching European standards, whereas indigenous groups suffer the poverty and unemployment typical of the poorer nations of the African continent.
The 1992 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1993
Now we get impatient waiting for fax machines to print out a document from half a continent away, when a few years ago we would have been content to wait days or weeks for the same article to arrive by mail.
NREN for All: Insurmountable Opportunity Jean Armour Polly 1993
Jellyband was indeed a typical rural John Bull of those days—the days when our prejudiced insularity was at its height, when to an Englishman, be he lord, yeoman, or peasant, the whole of the continent of Europe was a den of immorality, and the rest of the world an unexploited land of savages and cannibals.
The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy 1993

Quotes with CONTINENT (3)

She seemed to be a nice person, too, instead of a homicidal bitch like his former wife. Otherwise, the world should fear. When Mencheres fell for a woman, he fell hard. If Kira asked for her own continent as a birthday present, Mencheres would probably have one conquered for her before she blew out her candles.
Jeaniene Frost This Side of the Grave
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, anew continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to bereleased and channeled toward some great good.
Brian Tracy
Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.
Anthony Kiedis Scar Tissue
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT.

Used 6 times in crossword archives (1959–2021).