单词 | continent-country |
释义 | > as lemmascontinent-country continent-country, continent-island, one approaching in size to a continent; continent-wide adj. throughout a (specified) continent. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > continent > [adjective] continental1818 trans-continental1853 intercontinental1855 subcontinental1870 continent-wide1936 protocontinental1964 1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 23 Jan. In none of the great Indian Empires of the ages that are past, had any such union of the diverse peoples of this continent-country been effected. 1936 M. Franklin All that Swagger xiii. 123 His practice of equality with all men foreran a continent-wide experiment. a1963 L. MacNeice Astrol. (1964) ix. 278 These predictions set off a continent-wide panic. < as lemmas |
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