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Definitions for mainland
ˈmeɪnˌlænd, -ləndmain·land

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. mainlandnoun

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

Wiktionary

  1. mainlandnoun

    The main landmass of a country or continent

  2. Etymology: From. Compare mayn-land, magan-land, madin-land, meginland, meginland.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Mainlandnoun

    Continent.

    Etymology: main and land.

    Ne was it island then, ne was it pays’d
    Amid the ocean waves,
    But was all desolate, and of some thought,
    By sea to have been from the Celtick mainland brought. Fairy Queen, b. ii.

    Those whom Tyber’s holy forests hide,
    Or Circe’s hills from the mainland divide. John Dryden, Æn.

Wikipedia

  1. Mainland

    Mainland is defined as "relating to or forming the main part of a country or continent, not including the islands around it [regardless of status under territorial jurisdiction by an entity]." The term is 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. In some language a separate concept of "mainland" is missing and is replaced with a "continental portion". The term is relative: in Tasmania, continental Australia is the mainland, while to residents of Flinders Island, the main island of Tasmania is also "the mainland", although the geological Australian continent includes all the former plus the island of New Guinea and all the smaller islands (e.g. the Torres Strait Islands) in between.

ChatGPT

  1. mainland

    Mainland refers to the principal, large, continuous landmass in a region or country, as opposed to surrounding islands or peninsulas.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Mainlandnoun

    the continent; the principal land; -- opposed to island, or peninsula

Wikidata

  1. Mainland

    Mainland is a name given to a large landmass in a region, or to the largest of a group of islands in an archipelago. Sometimes its residents are called "Mainlanders". Because of its larger area, a mainland almost always has a much larger population than its associated islands, and mainlander culture and politics sometimes threaten to dominate those of the islands. Prominent uses of the term include: ⁕Mainland Argentina, as opposed to Tierra del Fuego. The term may be applied by Argentines to the British Overseas Territories of the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, whose claim is disputed by Argentina. The use of 'mainland' in this context is discouraged by the people of the two territories, who class themselves as British citizens. ⁕Mainland Australia, as opposed to Tasmania. ⁕Mainland Britain:, as opposed to Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man. On the Isle of Wight in 1982, Paul Theroux overheard residents at Ventnor: "and now they were talking about 'the mainland', as if we were far at sea and not twenty minutes by ferry from Portsmouth". ⁕Mainland Canada, as opposed to Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, Cape Breton Island or Vancouver Island;

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. MAINLAND

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Mainland is ranked #129825 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Mainland surname appeared 131 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Mainland.

    95.4% or 125 total occurrences were White.

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British National Corpus

  1. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'mainland' in Nouns Frequency: #2933

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of mainland in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of mainland in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of mainland in a Sentence

  1. Alex Wong:

    Investors are cautiously bullish on the mainland markets and are anticipating a strong start as they reopen.

  2. Steve Vickers:

    Until very recently, if you wanted to advance your business on the mainland you had to have certain key relationships, but yesterday's super-asset can quickly become today's liability.

  3. David Bain:

    Arrival increases bode well for Macau's longer-term bull thesis which includes an unparalleled geographic gaming location, small mainland penetration and upcoming multi-staged infrastructure improvements.

  4. Gordon Noble:

    We are digging in what is essentially the area that the Picts threw their rubbish but this collection of the waste products of their day-to-day lives is a treasure trove to archaeologists, what’s exciting is the level of preservation here. We’ve found animal bone which rarely survives in mainland Scotland because of the acidic soil. We are already getting really nice information about what people ate within the fort and we hope to extract a level of information we’ve not had for Pictish sites before.

  5. Chiao Chun:

    The visit by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan has given Mainland China another chance to coerce Taiwan economically.

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