S: (n) Africa (the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean)
S: (n) Antarctica, Antarctic continent (an extremely cold continent at the south pole almost entirely below the Antarctic Circle; covered by an ice cap up to 13,000 feet deep) "Antarctica is twice the size of Australia"
S: (n) Asia (the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations)
S: (n) Australia (the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean)
S: (n) Eurasia (the land mass formed by the continents of Europe and Asia)
S: (n) Europe (the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles)
S: (n) Gondwanaland (a hypothetical continent that (according to plate tectonic theory) broke up later into India and Australia and Africa and South America and Antarctica)
S: (n) Laurasia (a hypothetical continent that (according to plate tectonic theory) broke up later into North America and Europe and Asia)
S: (n) North America (a continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama)
S: (n) Pangaea, Pangea ((plate tectonics) a hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland)
S: (n) South America (a continent in the western hemisphere connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama)
W: (adj) continental [Related to: continent] (of or relating to or characteristic of a continent) "the continental divide"; "continental drift"
W: (adj) continental [Related to: continent] (being or concerning or limited to a continent especially the continents of North America or Europe) "the continental United States"; "continental Europe"; "continental waters"
S: (adj) continental (being or concerning or limited to a continent especially the continents of North America or Europe) "the continental United States"; "continental Europe"; "continental waters"
S: (n) Continent (the European mainland) "Englishmen like to visit the Continent but they wouldn't like to live there"