Continent

See also: continent and continnent

English

the Continent

(obsolete) The Old World.
- 1652, Peter Heylin, Cosmographie:
  the whole Continent of Europe, Asia, Africa.
Synonym of Europe (including Britain)
(UK) Mainland Europe, as seen from the British Isles.

Continent (plural Continents)

Continent m (strong, genitive Continentes or Continents, plural Continente)

Obsolete spelling of Kontinent which was deprecated in 1902 following the Second Orthographic Conference of 1901.
- 1856, Theodor Mommsen, Römische Geschichte [History of Rome], volume 1, Erstes Buch: Bis zur Abschaffung des römischen Königtums, page 4:
  Unsere Aufgabe ist die Darstellung des letzten Acts jenes grossen weltgeschichtlichen Schauspiels, die alte Geschichte der westlicheren unter den beiden Halbinseln, die vom nördlichen Continent aus sich in das Mittelmeer erstrecken.
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Declension of Continent [masculine, strong]

¹Now rare, see notes.

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