たいりく
Meanings
Noun
1. 地球上の面積の広い陸地。通常、オーストラリア大陸よりも広い陸地である、六大陸を言う。
2. 中国大陸。
日本、台湾、香港などに対して
Kanji used
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land
Pitch accent
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Composed of
land; shore
Used in vocabulary (34 in total)
New World (esp. the Americas, but also Australasia)
Dark Continent (i.e. Africa)
Old World (i.e. Asia, Africa, Europe)
Examples (9 in total)
Europe is a continent.
There are seven continents on the earth.
Australia is the smallest continent in the world.
This vast continent is abundant in fossil fuels.
Africa is a continent, but Greenland is not.
They crossed the vast continent on foot.
Britain is separated from the Continent by the Channel.
What is the continent with the most people living on it in the world?
Columbus sailed farther west to look for a new continent.