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