Usually means: Historical term for Africa, misunderstood.
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  1. Dark Continent, dark continent: Merriam-Webster
  2. Dark Continent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Dark Continent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Dark Continent, the Dark Continent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Dark Continent: Wiktionary
  6. Dark Continent, the dark continent: Dictionary.com
  7. Dark Continent (album), Dark Continent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Dark Continent: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  9. Dark Continent: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. dark continent: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Dark Continent, The Dark Continent: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Dark Continent)

▸ noun:  (informal, dated, sometimes offensive) Africa.

Similar:
Africoonia, Negroland, Africoonian, sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa, native, Africander, Nigritia, Afrikanerdom, Third World, more...

Opposite:
known continent, explored continent

Phrases:
the dark continent, more...

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Similar:
Africoonia, Negroland, Africoonian, sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa, native, Africander, Nigritia, Afrikanerdom, Third World, more...

Opposite:
known continent, explored continent

Phrases:
the dark continent, more...



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