mainland

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/ˈmeɪnlənd/

noun 3name 3

Collocations

ADJ.

beneath, british, far, fissiparous, longest, most, national, red

The longest mainland bridge in the world connects China to Hong Kong.

VERB + MAINLAND

back, diverged, got, parts, secede, sees, using

Several regions have threatened to secede from the mainland over the past decade.

MAINLAND + NOUN

africa, african, archipelagos, china, colobus, europe, finland, polities

The mainland African countries have made significant progress in renewable energy development.

PREP.

from, in, off, up, with

Ferries run regularly from mainland China to Hong Kong throughout the day.

ADV.

clearly

The island's economy is clearly mainland dependent for most of its imported goods and services.

Definitions

noun

The continent; the principal land, as distinguished from islands or a peninsula.

[…]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.

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

The principal island of a group.

Great Britain.

All of the people I interviewed were from Protestant backgrounds, with proud British traditions. Yet when they set foot on the mainland, they were met at times with jeering, derision and othering from the very people with whom they were raised to believe they had the most in common.

name

The largest island in the Orkney Islands council area, to the north of Scotland.

The largest island in the Shetland Islands council area, to the north of both Orkney and Scotland.

A historical region of British Columbia, British North America, British Empire.

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Example Bank

[…]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.

Wiktionary

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

Wiktionary

Other examples of nonhuman self-domestication in the wild exist—for instance, the Zanzibar red colobus monkey diverged from the mainland African red colobus in similar ways during its island isolation

Wiktionary

We took a ferry from the island to the mainland.

Tatoeba · #22795

The island is cut off far from the mainland.

Tatoeba · #44730

All communication with the mainland was cut off by the typhoon.

Tatoeba · #275435

Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, mainland is marked as historical. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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