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Definition: Continent |
ContinentAdjective1. Having control over urination and defecation. 2. Abstaining from sexual intercourse; "celibate priests". Noun1. One of the large landmasses of the earth; "there are seven continents"; "pioneers had to cross the continent on foot". 2. The European mainland; "Englishmen like to visit the Continent but they wouldn't like to live there". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "continent" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Continent \Con"ti*nent\, noun. [Latin continens, prop., a holding together: compare to French continent. See Continent, adjective]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Geography | One of the main continuous bodies of land on the earth's surface. Source: European Union. (references) |
Science | One of the large, continuous areas of the Earth into which the land surface is divided. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
simple:ContinentA continent (from the Latin "continere" for "to hold together") is a large continuous mass of land in the planet Earth.
Physical map of the world. There is no single standard for what defines a continent, and therefore various cultures and sciences have different lists of what are considered to be continents. In general, a continent must be large in area, consist of non-submerged land, and have geologically significant borders. While some consider that there are as few as four or five continents, the most commonly used counts are six or seven.
Two of the largest disagreements in listing continents are whether Europe and Asia should be considered separately or combined into Eurasia, and whether North America and South America should be considered separately or combined into America. A few geographers have also suggested grouping Europe, Asia, and Africa into a continent of Eurafrasia (see Africa-Eurasia).
The seven continent model is commonly taught in Western Europe and North America, while the six continent (combined Eurasia) model is also taught in North America and is the primary continent model used in scientific contexts. The six continent (combined Americas) model is commonly taught in Eastern Europe and South America.
Continents are sometimes conceptually combined to make "supercontinents" or subdivided to make "subcontinents". These terms are less precisely defined than "continent" itself.
Islands are usually considered to "belong" to the continent they are closest to, and hence the British Isles are considered to be a part of Europe. Sometimes Australasia or "Oceania" is used to refer collectively to Australia and the Pacific islands. Both terms, however, have fairly precise meanings.
When "The Continent" is referred to without clarification by a speaker of British English, it is usually presumed to mean Europe. Similarly, when the term "the Subcontinent" is used, it is presumed to refer to India.
See also List of countries by continent, Satellite Images of Continents.
Some systems of defining continents
See also: continental shelf, earth science, geography, geology, plate tectonics.
- Seven Continents: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia (Oceania), Europe, North America, and South America.
- Six Continents: Africa, Antarctica, Australia (Oceania), Eurasia, North America, and South America.
- Six Continents: Africa, America, Antarctica, Asia, Australia (Oceania), and Europe.
- Five Continents: Asia, Africa, America, Oceania, Antarctica.
- Five Continents: Eurasia, Africa, America, Australia (Oceania), Antarctica.
- Four Continents: Eurafrasia, America, Australia (Oceania), Antarctica
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Continent."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Europe, the old continent, is a continent whose boundaries are the Atlantic Ocean in the west, the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Ural Mountains and Ural River in the east, the Caspian Sea, Caucasus mountains and Black Sea in the southeast and the Mediterranean Sea as the southern boundary. With Asia, Europe forms the supercontinent Eurasia: Europe is the western fifth of the Eurasian landmass. In tems of size, Europe is the world's second smallest continent, being slightly larger than Oceania. In terms of population it is the second biggest continent after Asia.
Political map in 2003 - larger version See also: World map
Etymology
The name Europe possibly stems from a female character in Greek Mythology named Europa who was abducted by a bull-shaped Zeus. There is some trouble with this, though--the myth has nothing to do with Europe. A more prosaic explanation holds that it is derived from the word ereb from a Semitic language, meaning "sunset." From the point of view from the Middle East, the sun would appear to set beyond the lands to the west. In this regard it may be significant that Eurus is also a Latin term for the East Wind. This may even provide the (albeit noncausal) connection with Europa, as she was originally from Phoenicia and so, from the Greeks' point of view, was a woman of the East.
History
Main article: History of EuropeEurope has a long history of great cultural and economic achievement, starting as far back as the Bronze Age. The origin of Western culture is generally attributed to the ancient Greeks, and the Roman Empire spanned the entire continent for many centuries. Following the decline of the Roman Empire, Europe entered a long period of stasis, generally known as the Dark Ages, which came to an end with the Renaissance and the New Monarchs, marking the start of a period of discovery, exploration, and increase in scientific knowledge. From the 15th century European nations, particularly Spain, Portugal, France, and Britain, built large colonial empires, with vast holdings in Africa, the Americas, and Asia. The Industrial Revolution started in Europe in the 18th century, leading to much greater general prosperity and a corresponding increase in population. After World War II, and until the end of the Cold War, Europe was divided into two major political and economic blocks: Communist nations in Eastern Europe and capitalistic countries in Western Europe. Around 1990 the Eastern block broke up.
Extent
Often other borders of Europe are drawn, based on political, economical, cultural or practical considerations. This has led to there being several different "Europes" that are not always identical in size, including or excluding countries dependent on the definition of "Europe" used.
Increasingly, the word "Europe" is primarily being used as a synonym for the members of the European Union (EU). Fifteen European states are currently members of the EU, with 10 more due to join by mid-2004, a few more negotiating for membership and several more expected to commence negotiations at some stage in the future. Almost all European states are members of the Council of Europe; the sole exceptions are Belarus and the Vatican City.
Countries
Currently, geographic Europe comprises the following 45 countries (in alphabetical order):
- Albania
- Andorra
- Austria
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Czech Republic
- Cyprus (1)
- Denmark (2)
- Estonia
- Finland
- France (3)
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Italy
- Latvia
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- FYR of Macedonia (Republic of Macedonia)
- Malta
- Moldova
- Monaco
- Netherlands (4)
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal (5)
- Romania
- Russia (6)
- San Marino
- Serbia and Montenegro
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain (7)
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Turkey (8)
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom (9)
- Vatican City
See Past European Countries
Notes
Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, three CIS republics in the Transcaucasus, are geographically part of continental Asia, but are frequently associated with Europe. Whether or not Armenia and Georgia are considered to be European countries usually depends on whether one defines Europe as being primarily an ethnic / linguistic entity, or primarily a political / geographic entity, and what one considers those definitions to be.
- Cyprus is not shown in the above map. It is an independent island which is currently de facto divided between the primarily ethnically-Greek Republic Of Cyprus in the southern 2/3rds of the island, and an internationally-unrecognised Turkish statelette in the northern 1/3rd, the "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus". The island of Cyprus is located to the east of southern Greece.
- Denmark has two dependent territories: the Faeroe Islands in Europe, and the self-governing island of Greenland, which is considered part of North America. .
- France distinguishes overseas departments (such as French Guiana), overseas territories (such as French Polynesia) and territorial collectivities (such as Mayotte); they are all located outside of Europe.
- The Kingdom of the Netherlands consists of The Netherlands itself and overseas territories in the Caribbean.
- Portugal also includes the Azores and Madeira in the Atlantic Ocean.
- Russia extends far across Asia, but only the area westward of the Ural Mountains is considered to be within continental Europe.
- Spain also includes the Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla in the north of Africa.
- Turkey is for the most part on continental Asia, only the area west of the Bosporus and the Sea of Marmara is in Europe.
- The United Kingdom consists of Great Britain, Northern Ireland and dependent territories, of which the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man and Gibraltar lie within Europe.
Names of parts of Europe
- Balkans
- Baltic States
- Benelux
- British Isles
- The Caucasus
- Central Europe
- Eastern Europe
- Iberian peninsula
- Nordic countries
- Scandinavia
- Visegrad group
Satellite image
Satellite image - larger version
See also
History of Europe, European Youth Parliament, Transportation in Europe, Financial and social rankings of European countries, Area and population of European countries, Date of independence of European countries, European Constitution, Metropolitian cities of Europe, Europe (band), List of European cities with alternative namesExternal links
- Europe at Night at NASA's Earth Observatory
Africa | Antarctica | Asia | North America | Oceania | South America simple:Europe
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Europe."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
There are a variety of articles on wikipedia that list people of a particular nationality within the Americas. People on these lists should ideally have wikipedia articles of their own, and be in some way noteworthy for their nationality.
see also:
- List of Argentines
- List of Brazilians
- List of Canadians
- List of Colombians
- List of Cubans
- List of Dominicans
- List of Mexicans
- List of Peruvians
- List of Puerto Ricans
- List of people from the United States
- List of Venezuelans
- List of people, list of people by nationality
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lists of citizens of nations on the American continents."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| Cont. | English | Continent of Europe | N/A |
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Synonym: ContinentSynonym: celibate (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: incontinent (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Land | Continent, mainland, peninsula, chersonese, delta; tongue of land, neck of land; isthmus, oasis; promontory. (projection); highland. (height). |
Purity | Adjective: pure, undefiled, modest, delicate, decent, decorous; virginibus puerisque; simon-pure; chaste, continent, virtuous, honest, Platonic. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Now, you and I did not come out of mothballs to be the laughingstock of the continent. (Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo; writing credit: Arthur Alsberg; Don Nelson) I have declared war on the next continent. (The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy; writing credit: Douglas Adams; John Lloyd) And the continent of Australia (Cats & Dogs; writing credit: John Requa; Glenn Ficarra) Since he ascended the throne of the Zulus in 1816, Shaka has forged one of the mightiest empires the African continent has ever known (Shaka Zulu; writing credit: Joshua Sinclair) For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent. Face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to its capacity for Wonder (New York: A Documentary Film; writing credit: Ric Burns; James Sanders) | |
Lyrics | Roland searched the continent for the man who'd done him in (Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner; performing artist: Warren Zevon; writing credit: Warren Zevon & David Lindell c. 1976 Zevon Music, BMI) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Les Deux anglaises et le continent (1971) The Lost Continent (1968) Lost Continent (1951) Across the Continent (1922) | |
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 | This image was taken during an outbreak in 1976, when a total of 340 deaths occurred in Zaire and western Sudan. Ebola is one of the four known viruses that cause hemorrhagic fever. It is believed to be zoonotic, and native to the African continent. Credit: CDC. |  | Photo #1 of Mount St. Elias sequence. Mount Saint Elias is one of the largest mountains visible from the sea on the North American continent. It rises to a height of 18,008 feet in a distance of less than 20 miles from sea level at Icy Bay. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Photo #2 of Mount St. Elias sequence. Mount Saint Elias is one of the largest mountains visible from the sea on the North American continent. It rises to a height of 18,008 feet in a distance of less than 20 miles from sea level at Icy Bay. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Photo #11 of Mount St. Elias sequence. Mount Saint Elias is one of the largest mountains visible from the sea on the North American continent. It rises to a height of 18,008 feet in a distance of less than 20 miles from sea level at Icy Bay. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Photo #12 of Mount St. Elias sequence. Mount Saint Elias is one of the largest mountains visible from the sea on the North American continent. It rises to a height of 18,008 feet in a distance of less than 20 miles from sea level at Icy Bay. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Photo #13 of Mount St. Elias sequence. Mount Saint Elias is one of the largest mountains visible from the sea on the North American continent. It rises to a height of 18,008 feet in a distance of less than 20 miles from sea level at Icy Bay. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Photo #14 of Mount St. Elias sequence. Mount Saint Elias is one of the largest mountains visible from the sea on the North American continent. It rises to a height of 18,008 feet in a distance of less than 20 miles from sea level at Icy Bay. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Photo #16 of Mount St. Elias sequence. Mount Saint Elias is one of the largest mountains visible from the sea on the North American continent. It rises to a height of 18,008 feet in a distance of less than 20 miles from sea level at Icy Bay. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Cockpit of C-141 flying over approach to Antarctic continent. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Ozone analysis map showing "ozone hole" over Antarctic continent. Data obtained from NOAA-9 operational environmental satellite. Data were acquired by the Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet (SBUV/2) instrument. Credit: NOAA in Space. |
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| "Jan" by Loretta Humble Commentary: "This lady is 70, camps arcross the continent from deep Mexico to Alaska in an old van she outfitted with just basics. She is my new role model." |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Abraham Lincoln | 1863 | 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. (The Gettysburg Address) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | In this replacement Earth we're building they've given me Africa to do and of course I'm doing it with all fjords again because I happen to like them, and I'm old fashioned enough to think that they give a lovely baroque feel to a continent. And they tell me it's not equatorial enough |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | One of the most unquestionably safe forms of society in the nineteenth century was established in France and on the Continent. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | One value even of the smallest well is, that when you look into it you see that earth is not continent but insular |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | An alternative to the Brooke ileostomy is the continent ileostomy. (references) | |
Bladder replacement with continent diversion can also be offered to the cystectomy patient. (references) | ||
In Africa, plague foci are distributed from Uganda south on the eastern side of the continent, and in southern Africa. (references) | ||
Business | Dynamic expansion of military power, however, contributed to tensions on the continent. (references) | |
Argentina is the country that, after the U.S. and Canada, spends the most on health care in the American continent. (references) | ||
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) was founded in 1980 is the most important regional organization in the continent. (references) | ||
Economic History | Russia | Russia more resembles a continent than a country. (references) |
Morocco | It has contributed to UN peacekeeping efforts on the continent. (references) | |
Portugal | The saying goes that Europe was the last continent discovered by the Portuguese. (references) | |
Minorities | Switzerland | Switzerland's central European location makes it a convenient meeting place for groups from around the continent, and police frequently monitored large gatherings of neo-Nazis and skinheads, such as parties and concerts. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | AUSTRALIA, n. A country lying in the South Sea, whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably retarded by an unfortunate dispute among geographers as to whether it is a continent or an island. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | We know that among the Romans, about the Augustan age especially, the condition of their slaves was much more deplorable than that of the blacks on the continent of America. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Philanthropy could not wish to see this continent restored to the condition in which it was found by our forefathers. |
Abraham Lincoln | 1861-1865 | 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. |
Theodore Roosevelt | 1901-1909 | To us as a people it has been granted to lay the foundations of our national life in a new continent. |
Calvin Coolidge | 1923-1929 | The narrow fringe of States along the Atlantic seaboard advanced its frontiers across the hills and plains of an intervening continent until it passed down the golden slope to the Pacific. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | When all are free, then we can look forward to that day when this city will be joined as one and this country and this great Continent of Europe in a peaceful and hopeful globe. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | In a country that spans a continent modern transportation is vital to continued growth. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Africa is a continent of poor nations for the most part. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | We're here to mark that day in history when the Allied peoples joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Our hopes, our hearts, our hands, are with those on every continent who are building democracy and freedom. |
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| "Continent" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.94% of the time. "Continent" is used about 1,563 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.94% | 1,562 | 5,272 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.06% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,563 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "continent": antarctic continent ♦ Continent Ileostomy ♦ continent reservoir ♦ dark continent ♦ european continent ♦ the continent. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "continent": continent-by-continent, continent-carrying, continent-derived, continent-sized, continent-spanning, continent-wandering, continent-wide. | |
Ending with "continent": island-continent, sub-continent, super-continent. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "continent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | vasteland (mainland). (various references) | |
Albanian | tokë (coat, country, deck, dirt, domain, earth, Glebe, ground, holding, land, marl, pool, shore, soil, stead, Terra, terrain), kontinent (mainland, natural ground), i përmbajtur (aloof, composed, controlled, cool-headed, decent, demure, discreet, even tempered, modest, passionless, restrained, sedate, self-collected, sober minded, staid, stand off, strange, temperate, unaffable, undemonstrative), i përkorë (abstemious, abstinent, chaste, moderate). (various references) | |
Arabic | مستعصم, قارة, عفيف (chaste, pure, sober, virgin, virtuous), البر الأصلي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сдържан (aloof, buttoned up, chary, composed, coy, distant, modest, offish, remote, reserved, restrained, reticent, retiring, stand offish, taciturn, unaffable, uncommunicative, undemonstrative, undramatic, unemotional, unsociable, unsocial), целомъдрен (chaste, honest, vestal, virtuous), континент (mainland). (various references) | |
Chinese | 陸 (land, shore, six), 洲 (island), 大陆 (Continental, mainland), 大陸 (mainland, mainland China). (various references) | |
Czech | zdrženlivý (abstemious, abstinent, cold, reserved, restrained, undemonstrative), svìtadíl, pevnina (land, mainland), kontinent. (various references) | |
Danish | fastland (mainland), verdensdel (mainland), kontinent (mainland). (various references) | |
Dutch | vasteland (mainland), continent (mainland), werelddeel (mainland). (various references) | |
Esperanto | kontinento (mainland). (various references) | |
Farsi | پرهیزکار (Abstemious, Inward, Righteous, Virtuous), قاره (Mainland), خوددار (Undemonstrative), اقلیم (Hemisphere). (various references) | |
Finnish | mannermaa (mainland), maanosa (mainland). (various references) | |
French | continent. (various references) | |
Frisian | wrâlddiel (mainland), fêstelân (mainland). (various references) | |
German | Kontinent (mainland), Festland (dry land, land, mainland), Erdteil (mainland), enthaltsam (abstemious, abstemiously, abstentious, abstinent, abstinently, chaste, chastely, moderate, teetotal). (various references) | |
Greek | ήπειρος (mainland). (various references) | |
Hebrew | יבשת (mainland). (various references) | |
Hungarian | világrész (terra firma), szárazföld (dry land, earth, land, mainland, terra firma), kontinens (mainland). (various references) | |
Indonesian | beternak, benua (country). (various references) | |
Italian | continente (mainland, moderate, temperate). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 大陸 , 大陸 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たいりく. (various references) | |
Korean | 대륙 (Continental). (various references) | |
Manx | mooar-rheynn (province), macaintagh (simple, simple-hearted, unaffectedness). (various references) | |
Norwegian | verdensdel, kontinent. (various references) | |
Papiamen | kontinente (mainland). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ontinentcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | continente (box, chaste, jug, main, mainland, vessel, world). (various references) | |
Romanian | continent (mainland, natural ground), uscat (adust, arenaceous, arid, barren, crusty, dry, earth, fleshless, hungry, husky, land, main, mainland, meager, meagre, parched, sear, sere, shore, shrunken, slack, stale, thirsty, well-seasoned, wizened), stãpânit (pent up, phlegmatic, sober), reţinut (coy, dry, moderate, reserved, restrained, restrictive), abstinent (abstainer, abstemious, abstinent, chaste, pussyfoot, teetotal, teetotaller, temperate). (various references) | |
Russian | сдержанный (chary, checked, demure, distant, frozen, guarded, modest, restrained, reticent, self-collected, stand off, stand offish, stand-offish, undemonstrative, unsociable), целомудренный (chaste, virtuous), континент сдержанный, континент (land mass), материк (land, mainland, natural ground). (various references) | |
Scottish | mór-thir (mainland). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | uzdržljiv (abstemious, abstinent, offish, restrained, self contained, sober), kontinent. (various references) | |
Spanish | continente (mainland). (various references) | |
Swedish | världsdel (mainland), fastland (mainland), kontinent, återhållsam (abstemious, abstinent, guarded, restrained, undemonstrative). (various references) | |
Turkish | kendine hakim (passionless), kıta (battalion, canto, continental, corps, detachment, quatrain, stanza, stave, strophe, verse), anakara (mainland), ölçülü (careful, conservative, demure, dimensional, level, measurable, measured, mensurable, moderate, restrained, size, sized, sober, sober minded, temperate). (various references) | |
Turkmen | materik (mainland). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | стриманий (abstemious, abstentious, abstinent, ascetic, chary, chaste, checked, close, collected, composed, coy, demure, discreet, dry, guarded, low key, measured, offish, restrained, reticent, self controlled, self-composed, spartan, stand off, temperate, undemonstrative, well balanced), цнотливий (chaste, undefiled, virtuous), континент, материк (mainland, natural ground), здерджливий. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | trinh tiết, tiết độ, lục địa (mainland), điều độ trinh bạch. (various references) | |
Welsh | cyfandir. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | castus, continens, continentem, continentes, continentis, terra continens. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | karshvare. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | 1 Corinthians Chapter 7, Verse 9 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Ei de ouk egkrateuontai gamhsatwsan kreisson gar estin gamhsai h purousqai |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Quod si non se continent nubant melius est enim nubere quam uri |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | That if thei conteynen not hem silf, be thei weddid; for it is betere to be weddid, than to be brent. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | But and yf they canot abstayne let them mary. For it is better to mary then to burne. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | But if they have not self-control let them get married; for married life is better than the burning of desire. |
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| Language | 1 Corinthians Chapter 7, Verse 9 |
| Cebuano | Apan kon sila dili man ugaling makapugong sa ilang kaugalingon, nan, paminyoa na lang sila. Kay labi pang maayo hinoon nga maminyo kay sa magasilaob sila sa kaulag. |
| Chinese | 倘 若 自 己 禁 止 不 住 、 就 可 以 嫁 娶 。 與 其 慾 火 攻 心 、 倒 不 如 嫁 娶 為 妙 。 |
| Croatian | Ako li se ne mogu uzdržati, neka se žene, udaju. Jer bolje je ženiti se negoli izgarati. |
| Danish | Men kunne de ikke være afholdende, da lad dem gifte sig; thi det er bedre at gifte sig end at lide Brynde. |
| Dutch | Maar indien zij zich niet kunnen onthouden, dat zij trouwen; want het is beter te trouwen dan te branden. |
| Finnish | mutta jos eivät voi itseään hillitä, niin menkööt naimisiin; sillä parempi on naida kuin palaa. |
| French | Mais s`ils manquent de continence, qu`ils se marient; car il vaut mieux se marier que de brûler. |
| German | So sie aber sich nicht mögen enthalten, so laß sie freien; es ist besser freien denn Brunst leiden. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Tetapi kalau Saudara tidak dapat menahan nafsu, Saudara hendaknya kawin. Sebab lebih baik Saudara kawin daripada nafsu berahimu berkobar-kobar. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Tetapi jikalau mereka itu tiada dapat menahan dirinya, biarlah mereka itu kawin, karena lebih baik kawin daripada menyala berahinya. |
| Italian | ma se non sanno vivere in continenza, si sposino; è meglio sposarsi che ardere. |
| Maori | Otira ki te kore e taea e raua te whakamanawanui, me marena: he pai ake hoki te marena i te kaka o te ngakau. |
| Norwegian | men kan de ikke være avholdende, da la dem gifte sig! for det er bedre å gifte sig enn å lide brynde. |
| Portuguese | Mas, se não podem conter-se, casem-se. Porque é melhor casar do que abrasar-se. |
| Rumanian | Dar dacq nu se pot knfrkna, sq se cqsqtoreascq; pentrucq este mai bine sq se cqsqtoreascq deckt sq ardq. |
| Shuar | Tura katsuntratniun tujinkiarka nuatkarti. Ti katsuntrachmin nekapeakum nuatkatin pénkeraiti. |
| Spanish | Pero si no tienen don de continencia, que se casen; porque mejor es casarse que quemarse. |
| Swahili | Hata hivyo, kama mtu hawezi kujizuia basi, na aoe; maana ni afadhali zaidi kuoa kuliko kuwaka tamaa. |
| Swedish | Men kunna de icke leva återhållsamt, så må de gifta sig; ty det är bättre att gifta sig än att vara upptänd av begär. |
| Uma | Aga ane uma-koi ntaha, agina lau-pi ncamoko-koi. Apa' lompe' lau-pi ncamoko, ngkai hina-ni ncamoko uma nidadahi mpotaha. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "continent": continental, continentally, continentals, continently, continents. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "continent": incontinent, subcontinent, supercontinent. (additional references) | |
Words containing "continent": epicontinental, incontinently, intercontinental, subcontinental, subcontinents, supercontinents, transcontinental. (additional references) | |
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"Continent" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Chontamenti, comtinent, conitnent, constinent, contagent, contanent, contenant, contenent, contigent, continant, contine, continen, continente, continet, continetn, continuen, contunent, convinent, konttinen. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "continent" (pronounced kÄ"ntununt) |
| 9 | k Ä" n t u n u n t | incontinent, subcontinent. |
| 6 | -t u n u n t | abstinent, impertinent, pertinent. |
| 5 | -u n u n t | consonant, contaminant, covenant, immanent, imminent, determinant, dissonant, dominant, eminent, permanent, predominant, preeminent, prominent, recombinant, resonant, ruminant, semipermanent. |
| 4 | -n u n t | complainant, component, exponent, indignant, lieutenant, malignant, opponent, pennant, pregnant, proponent, remnant, repugnant, stagnant, tenant. |
| 3 | -u n t | agent, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, ambient, ambivalent, amendment, amusement, ancient, announcement, annulment, antecedent, antidepressant, antigovernment, antioxidant, apartment, apparent, appeasement, applicant, appointment, apportionment, ardent, argent, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, arrant, arrogant, absent, absorbent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accompaniment, accomplishment, abandonment, abatement, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, accountant, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adherent, adjacent, adjournment, adjustment, adjutant, adolescent, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, afferent, affiant, affluent, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assessment, assignment, assistant, assortment, astonishment, astringent, atonement, attachment, attainment, attendant, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, beneficent, benevolent, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, blatant |
