Continent

1. a. 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.
2. a. Serving to restrain or limit; restraining; opposing.
3. a. Exercising restraint as to the indulgence of desires or passions; temperate; moderate.
4. a. Abstaining from sexual intercourse; exercising restraint upon the sexual appetite; esp., abstaining from illicit sexual intercourse; chaste.
5. a. Not interrupted; connected; continuous; as, a continent fever.
6. a. That which contains anything; a receptacle.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.