Crossword-Solution: CONTINENT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CONTINENT | anagram | CONTENTIN |
We have 36 clues for the answer “CONTINENT”
| Clue | Answers |
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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
REAET
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.
Ray could talk well about the large part of the continent over which he had been knocked about, and Johnny was appreciative.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1959–2021).