mainland
The continent; the principal land, as distinguished from islands or a peninsula.
Other meanings
The principal island of a group.
A kind of
- land
Related words
- mainland Chinese
- mainlandization
- mainland clouded leopard
- mainland China
- mainlander
- mainland Europe
- mainland Japan
Word history
From Middle English "mayne londe".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “mainland” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.