mainland

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see also: Mainland

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Pronunciation

• (America) IPA: /ˈmeɪ̪nlənd/

Noun

mainland (plural mainlands)

1. The continent; the principal land, as distinguished from island or a peninsula.
   • 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 (not durably archived) ↗:

     You may have not realised when I was using the term mainland Europe, I was excluding the British Isles.

2. The principal island of a group.

Translations

• French: continent
• German: Festland, Kontinent
• Italian: continente
• Portuguese: continente
• Russian: матери́к
• Spanish: continente

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Mainland

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Proper noun

1. .
2. .

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