Hyphenation of continent

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word continent? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

con-ti-nent

Definitions of continent:

1.	One of the large landmasses of the earth There are seven continents Pioneers had to cross the continent on foot
2.	The European mainland Englishmen like to visit the Continent but they wouldn't like to live there
3.	Having control over urination and defecation
4.	Abstaining from sexual intercourse Celibate priests

Synonyms of continent:

adj	continent
adj	celibate, chaste
noun	landmass
noun	Continent, Europe

Last hyphenations of this language

petrified uncompendious Territories vicarates alleviative COLLEAGUES BIN Antakya defective spaced literate wavies interrogation perverted coughing bunco puffy hoho scoreless

Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.