Africa is a continent of migration.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
大洲
continent
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
continent
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 大洲 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 大洲 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
As tectonic plates shifted, uniquely adapted species of dinosaur emerged on each continent through vicariance.
The European Union rolled out a massive, trillion-dollar investment plan Tuesday to deliver on promises to make Europe the first carbon-neutral continent by 2050.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 大洲.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 大洲.
Directly before
- 一个大洲1
- 的大洲1
- 各大洲1
- 和大洲1
Directly after
- 大洲因1
- 大洲的1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 大洲
What does 大洲 mean in Chinese?
大洲 (dàzhōu) means continent.
How do you pronounce 大洲?
大洲 is pronounced dàzhōu.
Is 大洲 an HSK word?
大洲 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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