Related WordNet synsets for SUMO concept Continent
More specialized WordNet synsets
- intercontinental
- extending or taking place between or among continents; "intercontinental exploration"; "intercontinental flights"
- continent-wide
- involving the entire continent
- transcontinental
- spanning or crossing or on the farther side of a continent; "transcontinental railway"; "transcontinental travelers"; "a transcontinental city"
Instance WordNet synsets
- North America
- a continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama
- South America
- a continent in the western hemisphere connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama
- Asia
- the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations
- Europe
- the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles
- Antarctica, Antarctic continent
- an extremely cold continent at the south pole almost entirely below the Antarctic Circle; covered by an ice cap up to 13,000 feet deep
- Australia
- the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean
- Africa
- the second largest continent; located south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the India Ocean
- Pangaea, Pangea
- (plate tectonic theory) a hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland
- Laurasia
- a hypothetical continent that (according to plate tectonic theory) broke up later into North America and Europe and Asia
- Gondwanaland
- a hypothetical continent that (according to plate tectonic theory) broke up later into India and Australia and Africa and South America and Antarctica
- continental
- of or pertaining to or typical of Europe; "a Continental breakfast"
- African
- of or relating to the nations of Africa or their peoples; "African languages"