Español > continente: 4 sentidos > nombre 1, object| Sentido | One of the large landmasses of the earth. |
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| Casos | Africa, áfrica, África | The second largest continent |
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| América del Norte, América, Norteamérica | A continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama |
| América del Sur, América Meridional, South America, Sudamérica, Suramérica | A continent in the western hemisphere connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama |
| Antártica, Antártida | An extremely cold continent at the south pole almost entirely below the Antarctic Circle |
| Asia | The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population |
| Australia | The smallest continent |
| Eurasia | The land mass formed by the continents of Europe and Asia |
| Europa | The 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia) |
| Gondwana | A hypothetical continent that (according to plate tectonic theory) broke up later into India and Australia and Africa and South America and Antarctica |
| Laurasia | A hypothetical continent that (according to plate tectonic theory) broke up later into North America and Europe and Asia |
| 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 |
| Partes | cratón | The part of a continent that is stable and forms the central mass of the continent |
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| subcontinente | A large and distinctive landmass (as India or Greenland) that is a distinct part of some continent |
| General | continente | A large continuous extent of land |
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| Inglés | continent |
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| Catalán | continent |
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| Adjetivo | continental | Being or concerning or limited to a continent especially the continents of North America or Europe |
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| continental | Of or relating to or characteristic of a continent |
