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Webster 1913 Edition

Mainland

Main′landˊ

,

Noun.

The continent; the principal land; – opposed to

island

, or

peninsula

.

Dryden.

After the two wayfarers had crossed from the peninsula to the

mainland

.

Hawthorne.

Definition 2024

mainland

mainland

See also: Mainland

English

Noun

mainland ‎(plural mainlands)

The main landmass of a country or continent
- 1719: Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
  ...I got to the mainland, where, to my great comfort, I clambered up the cliffs of the shore and sat me down upon the grass, free from danger and quite out of the reach of the water.
- 2005: comment
  You may have not realised when I was using the term mainland Europe, I was excluding the British Isles.

Hypernyms

land

Translations

the main landmass of a country or continent

Arabic: يَابِسَة f ‎(yābisa), بَرّ m ‎(barr), قَارَّة f ‎(qārra)
Belarusian: мацяры́к m ‎(macjarýk)
Catalan: continent (ca) m, terra ferma f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 大陸 (zh), 大陆 (zh) ‎(dàlù), 內地 (zh), 内地 (zh) ‎(nèidì), 本土 (zh) ‎(běntǔ)
Danish: fastland n
Dutch: vasteland (nl) n
Faroese: meginland n, fastland n
Finnish: manner (fi)
French: continent (fr) m
German: Festland (de) n, Kontinent (de) m
Greek: ηπειρωτική χώρα f ‎(ipeirotikí chóra)
Icelandic: meginland (is) n, fastland n
Irish: mórthír f, tír mór m

Italian: continente (it) m
Japanese: 本土 ‎(ほんど, hondo), 内地 ‎(ないち, naichi), 大陸 (ja) ‎(たいりく, tairiku)
Korean: 본토 (ko) ‎(bonto), 대륙 (ko) ‎(daeryuk)
Malagasy: kontinènta
Maori: otiki, mokoroa, tuawhenua
Norwegian: fastland (no) n
Portuguese: continente (pt) m
Romanian: continent (ro)
Russian: матери́к (ru) m ‎(materík), контине́нт (ru) m ‎(kontinént)
Spanish: continente (es) m
Swahili: bara (sw)
Swedish: fastland (sv) n
Ukrainian: матери́к m ‎(materýk)
Vietnamese: đại lục (vi), đất liền (vi)

References

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