English Explanatory Dictionary

Dark Continent

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. Africa.

Word forms

Dark Continent the Dark Continent

Etymology

A Victorian nickname, referring to the fact that little was known in the West about the interior of the continent.

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