- one of the main landmasses of the globe, usually reckoned as seven in number (Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Australia, and Antarctica).
- a comparable landmass on another planet.
- the mainland, as distinguished from islands or peninsulas.
- the mainland of Europe, as distinguished from the British Isles.
- a continuous tract or extent, as of land.
- something that serves as a container or boundary.
- exercising or characterized by restraint in relation to the desires or passions and especially to sexual desires; temperate.
- able to control urinary and fecal discharge.
- containing; being a container; capacious.
- restraining or restrictive.
- continuous; forming an uninterrupted tract, as land.
- one of the earth's large land masses (Asia, Australia, Africa, Europe, North and South America, and Antarctica)
- that part of the earth's crust that rises above the oceans and is composed of sialic rocks. Including the continental shelves, the continents occupy 30 per cent of the earth's surface
- obsolete
- mainland as opposed to islands
- a continuous extent of land
- able to control urination and defecation
- exercising self-restraint, esp from sexual activity; chaste
- the mainland of Europe as distinguished from the British Isles
