Dictionary Entry
continent
continent is a 9-letter English word with 10 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Serving to restrain or limit; restraining; opposing. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 15 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Serving to restrain or limit; restraining; opposing.
- 2adjective
Exercising restraint as to the indulgence of desires or passions; temperate; moderate.
- 3adjective
Abstaining from sexual intercourse; exercising restraint upon the sexual appetite; esp., abstaining from illicit sexual intercourse; chaste.
- 4adjective
Not interrupted; connected; continuous; as, a continent fever.
- 5adjective
That which contains anything; a receptacle.
- 6adjective
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.
- 7noun
the European mainland
"Englishmen like to visit the Continent but they wouldn't like to live there"
- 8noun
one of the large landmasses of the earth
"there are seven continents"
"pioneers had to cross the continent on foot"
- 9adjective
abstaining from sexual intercourse
"celibate priests"
Synonyms
- 10adjective
having control over urination and defecation
Synonyms
Common word forms
Words from these letters
If you are holding these tiles, the unscrambler for CONTINENT lists every valid word you can make from the same letters, including shorter plays.