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Meaning of protocontinent | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

A landmass capable of becoming a continent.

Examples

“There were still plenty of islands about, including proto-Britain in the west and Iberia in the south, but stretching from the Turgai Strait in the east to Scandinavia in the north, a European proto-continent was beginning to take shape, one that no amount of rising seas or shifting tectonic plates has divided since.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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