darkcontinentとは 意味・読み方・使い方

固有名詞

the Dark Continent

1. (informal, dated, sometimes offensive) Africa.
   • 1879 March 12, The Sydney Morning Herald:

     De Lesseps, the engineer, has been visiting the Bey of Tunis, and trying to get his consent to the scheme for piercing the isthmus of Zaber, and opening up communication with the interior of the Dark Continent by water.

   • 1903 November 10, The Advertiser Adelaide:

     Africa is still the Dark Continent, the land of the unknown, the remarkable.

参照

• “Dark Continent”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.