Continent
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Étymologie
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[modifier le wikicode]Continent \ˈkɒn.tɪ.nənt\ (Royaume-Uni), \ˈkɑnt.ˌnənt\ (États-Unis) singulier
- (Royaume-Uni) (Avec the) Continent européen, par opposition au Royaume-Uni.
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
— (Winston Churchill)- De Szczecin dans la Baltique à Trieste dans l’Adriatique, un rideau de fer est tombé à travers le continent européen.
There was on one side Germany, with its silver monometallism, having to make up its bank reserves only with silver ; and on the other England, with its bi-monometallism, at one time dependent for its reserves on the gold that might come in, at another time running over the Continent to purchase silver for transmission to India.
— (Guilford Lindsey Molesworth, Silver and Gold: The Money of the World, 1891, page 70)
Prononciation
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