1.  continent(n = noun.object) - one of the large landmasses of the earth; "pioneers had to cross the continent on foot"; "there are seven continents"
Derived form adjective continental₃, adjective continental₄

2.  continent(n = noun.location) - the European mainland; "Englishmen like to visit the Continent but they wouldn't like to live there"
Derived form adjective continental₁

1.  continent(a = adj.all) - having control over urination and defecation;
Antonym: incontinent
Derived form verb contain₂, noun continence₂

2.  continent(s = adj.all) celibate - abstaining from sexual intercourse; "celibate priests"
Derived form noun continence₁, noun continency₁

1.  Serving to restrain or limit; restraining; opposing. Shak. [1913 Webster]

2.  Exercising restraint as to the indulgence of desires or passions; temperate; moderate. [1913 Webster]

3.  Abstaining from sexual intercourse; exercising restraint upon the sexual appetite; esp., abstaining from illicit sexual intercourse; chaste. [1913 Webster]

4.  Not interrupted; connected; continuous; as, a continent fever. [1913 Webster]

1.  That which contains anything; a receptacle. [1913 Webster]

2.  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. [1913 Webster]

continent, n.
1 any of the main continuous expanses of land (Europe, Asia, Africa, N. and S. America, Australia, Antarctica).
2 (the Continent) Brit. the mainland of Europe as distinct from the British Isles.
3 continuous land; a mainland.

continent, adj.
1 able to control movements of the bowels and bladder.
2 exercising self-restraint, esp. sexually.

Derivative:
continence n. continently adv.

Etymology:
ME f. L (as CONTAIN)

N  purity, decency, decorum, delicacy, continence, chastity, honesty, virtue, modesty, shame, pudicity, pucelage, virginity, vestal, virgin, Joseph, Hippolytus, Lucretia, Diana, prude, pure, undefiled, modest, delicate, decent, decorous, virginibus puerisque, simon-pure, chaste, continent, virtuous, honest, Platonic, virgin, unsullied, cherry, as chaste as unsunn'd snow, a soul as white as heaven, 'tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity, to the pure all things are pure.

N  land, earth, ground, dry land, terra firma, continent, mainland, peninsula, chersonese, delta, tongue of land, neck of land, isthmus, oasis, promontory, highland, coast, shore, scar, strand, beach, playa, bank, lea, seaboard, seaside, seabank, seacoast, seabeach, ironbound coast, loom of the land, derelict, innings, alluvium, alluvion, ancon, riverbank, river bank, levee, soil, glebe, clay, loam, marl, cledge, chalk, gravel, mold, subsoil, clod, clot, rock, crag, acres, real estate, landsman, earthy, continental, midland, coastal, littoral, riparian, alluvial, terrene, landed, predial, territorial, geophilous, ripicolous, ashore, on shore, on land.