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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mainland
noun
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▪ A great number of emigres arrived daily from the mainland, left homeless and often destitute of all worldly possessions.
▪ But not the drift to the mainland for work for the young men.
▪ The mainland of Britain is still their most likely destination.
▪ The familiar mainland gripe of skill shortages is rarely heard in Northern Ireland.
▪ To reach the mainland from Anglesey, vehicles must go over the Menai Bridge where any road barrier could not be avoided.
▪ Tor suggests we try to stop in the small bay where we will touch the mainland.
▪ When the new shops open, they also have that all too rare mainland commodity - customers - and plenty of them.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mainland

Mainland \Main"land`\, n. The continent; the principal land; -- opposed to island, or peninsula.
--Dryden.

After the two wayfarers had crossed from the peninsula to the mainland.
--Hawthorne.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mainland

c.1400, from main (adj.) + land (n.). Usually referring to continuous bodies of land and not islands or peninsulas. Related: Mainlander.

Wiktionary
mainland

n. The main landmass of a country or continent

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WordNet
mainland

n. the main land mass of a country or continent; as distinguished from an island or peninsula

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Mainland

Mainland is a contiguous landmass that is larger and often politically, economically and/or demographically more significant than politically associated remote territories, such as exclaves or oceanic islands situated outside the continental shelf.

In geography, "mainland" can denote the continental (i.e. non-insular) part of any polity or the main island within an island nation. In geopolitics, "mainland" is sometimes used interchangeably with terms like Metropole as an antonym to overseas territories. In the sense of "heartland", mainland is the opposite of periphery.

The term is used on multiple levels. From a Tasmanian perspective, continental Australia is the mainland, while to residents of Flinders Island, the main island of Tasmania is also "the mainland".

Mainland (cheese)

Mainland Cheese is a brand of cheese now owned by Fonterra Co-operative Group that is sold throughout Australasia and parts of the Americas. It began as a family business in the South Island of New Zealand (which is jocularly known as the "mainland" of New Zealand because it is larger than the North Island).

Mainland (disambiguation)

Mainland is a geomorphological/ geopolitical term.

Mainland may also refer to:

  • Mainland (cheese), cheese brand owned by Fonterra
  • The Mainland (Father Ted), episode of the Channel 4 sitcom Father Ted
  • Mainland, Western Australia, town in Western Australia
  • Mainland, Orkney, the main island of Orkney, Scotland
  • Mainland, Shetland, the main island of Shetland, Scotland
  • Mainland High School, Daytona Beach, Florida
  • Mainland (band)
Mainland (band)

Mainland is an American post-punk/rock band based in Brooklyn, New York. The current members are Jordan Topf, Corey Mullee, Alex Pitta, and Tucker Fleming.

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Usage examples of "mainland".

The King of Sicily then prepared a brigantine to go to the mainland with the letters.

Most of the shop sold metalware to islanders, everything from hardware to eggbeaters, sausage grinders to sheet-steel stoves, but one corner was devoted to the mainland trade.

Below, the bridge which connected the island to the mainland stretched out across the lake, misted and empty.

We can see why there should be some relation between the presence of mammals, in a more or less modified condition, and the depth of the sea between an island and the mainland.

At Pali House the members of the crew were making arrangements to go back to the mainland.

Senate had to wait in Portus Itius on the Gallic mainland until Caesar returned from his second expedition to the island at the western end of the world, a place almost as mysterious as Serica.

When the Potlatch was over, old Chief Mowitch and Lapool and Ta-la-pus returned to Vancouver Island, but no more the boy sat alone on the isolated rock, watching the mainland through a mist of yearning.

ICHIGO and the Chinese military passivity in the face of it raised the fear that the Japanese army in China might root itself into the mainland and continue to fight even after defeat of the home islands, prolonging the war perhaps for years before it could be conquered.

It struck Renner that if he flew a sonic boom straight across the mainland, Bury would be wiped out by the fines.

Passage through the strait between it and Scattery would be almost as trying as to go north of it with the mainland for a lee shore beyond.

Sir Robert de Shurland, Lord of the Isle of Sheppey, and of many a fair manor on the mainland, was a man of worship.

Was it possible that the fishermen and settlers of the mainland had risen, as Obadiah had said, and were already at hand to destroy Strang and his people?

Between La Dolorosa and the mainland, only the swaying bridge, a vast length of crude planks and rope, hung suspended in midair.

Now that the situation was growing tenser the state of affairs above and under water between the Ladrones, the Philippines and the Asiatic mainland became darker and more dangerous.

Sing how the unsightly black fuzz, like the Persian legions of Darius, sweeps over the Achaean mainland of girls barely into their teens!