English
Etymology
From Middle English mayne londe main land Scots mayn-land magan-land madin-land ( “ mainland ” ) , Faroese meginland ( “ mainland ” ) , Icelandic meginland ( “ mainland ” ) .
Pronunciation
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Noun
mainland (plural mainlands
The continent islands 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.
The principal island of a group.
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Translations
the main landmass of a country or continent
Arabic: يَابِسَة f ( yābisa ) , بَرّ m ( barr ) , قَارَّة f ( qārra )
Belarusian: мацяры́к m ( macjarýk )
Catalan: continent (ca) m terra ferma f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 大陸 ／ 大陆 (zh) ( dàlù ) , 大陆 (zh) ( dàlù ) , 內地 ／ 内地 (zh) ( nèidì ) , 内地 (zh) ( nèidì ) , 本土 (zh) ( běntǔ )
Danish: fastland n
Dutch: vasteland (nl) n
Esperanto: ĉeflando
Estonian: manner (et)
Faroese: meginland n fastland n
Finnish: manner (fi)
French: continent (fr) m
Georgian: კონტინენტი ( ḳonṭinenṭi ) , მატერიკი ( maṭeriḳi )
German: Festland (de) n Kontinent (de) m
Greek: ηπειρωτική χώρα f ( ipeirotikí chóra )
Ancient: ἤπειρος f ( ḗpeiros )
Icelandic: meginland (is) n fastland n
(deprecated template usage ) {{trans-mid }}Irish: mórthír f tír mór m
Italian: continente (it) m
Japanese: 本土 ( ほんど, hondo ) , 内地 ( ないち, naichi ) , 大陸 (ja) ( たいりく, tairiku )
Korean: 본토 (ko) ( bonto ) , 대륙 (ko) ( daeryuk )
Malagasy: kontinènta
Maori: otiki mokoroa tuawhenua
Norwegian: fastland (no) n
Portuguese: continente (pt) m
Romanian: continent (ro)
Russian: матери́к (ru) m ( materík ) , контине́нт (ru) m ( kontinént )
Scots: mainland
Spanish: continente (es) m
Swahili: bara (sw)
Swedish: fastland (sv) n
Ukrainian: матери́к m ( materýk )
Vietnamese: đại lục (vi) , đất liền (vi)
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