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mainland

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Noun
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Main=land

CIDE DICTIONARY

mainlandn. 
     The continent; the principal land; -- opposed to island, or peninsula.  Dryden.  [1913 Webster]
    "After the two wayfarers had crossed from the peninsula to the mainland."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

mainland, n.
1 a large continuous extent of land, excluding neighbouring islands etc.
2 (Mainland) the largest island in Orkney and in Shetland.

Derivative
mainlander n.

ROGET THESAURUS

mainland

Land

N land, earth, ground, dry land, terra firma, continent, mainland, peninsula, chersonese, delta, tongue of land, neck of land, isthmus, oasis, promontory, highland, coast, shore, scar, strand, beach, playa, bank, lea, seaboard, seaside, seabank, seacoast, seabeach, ironbound coast, loom of the land, derelict, innings, alluvium, alluvion, ancon, riverbank, river bank, levee, soil, glebe, clay, loam, marl, cledge, chalk, gravel, mold, subsoil, clod, clot, rock, crag, acres, real estate, landsman, earthy, continental, midland, coastal, littoral, riparian, alluvial, terrene, landed, predial, territorial, geophilous, ripicolous, ashore, on shore, on land.


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