<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>One of the main landmasses of the globe, usually reckoned as seven in number (Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Australia, and Antarctica).</li><li>A comparable landmass on another planet.</li><li>The mainland, as distinguished from islands or peninsulas.</li><li>The Continent, the mainland of Europe, as distinguished from the British Isles.</li><li>A continuous tract or extent, as of land.</li><li>Archaic: something that serves as a container or boundary.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>Exercising or characterized by restraint in relation to the desires or passions and especially to sexual desires; temperate.</li><li>Able to control urinary and fecal discharge. (Obsolete)</li><li>Containing; being a container; capacious. (Obsolete)</li><li>Restraining or restrictive. (Obsolete)</li><li>Continuous; forming an uninterrupted tract, as land.</li></ul>