たいりく
Meanings
Adjective (の)
Noun
1. continent
It was the shape of the continents of this world.
Noun
2. continental Asia (esp. mainland China)
More and more tourists are coming from mainland China.
3. continental Europe
Back then, Britain kept its distance from the Continent.
Pitch accent
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Composed of
land; shore
Used in vocabulary (38 in total)
New World (esp. the Americas, but also Australasia)
Dark Continent (i.e. Africa)
Old World (i.e. Asia, Africa, Europe)
Examples (22 in total)
Europe is a continent.
It is traveling back and forth between the continent and the sea.
More and more tourists are coming from mainland China.
Shall we aim for another continent?
I judged it to be a problem for the entire continent.
Back then, Britain kept its distance from the Continent.
Today's lecture is on continental history.
Before the war, my grandfather went over to the Asian mainland.
There are seven continents on the earth.
Yellow dust blows over from the Asian mainland.
It was the shape of the continents of this world.
I was amazed that the continent was so vast.
Australia is the smallest continent in the world.
We crossed from Britain to the Continent by ferry.
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.
It isn't surprising that Africans may think of English as one of their continent's languages.
What's more, the northern part of this continent is too harsh for people to live in.