Usually means: Primary continuous expanse of land.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word mainland:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. mainland: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Mainland, mainland: Merriam-Webster
  3. Mainland, mainland: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. mainland: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. mainland, the mainland: Collins English Dictionary
  6. mainland: Vocabulary.com
  7. Mainland, mainland: Wordnik
  8. mainland, the mainland: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Mainland, mainland: Wiktionary
  10. mainland: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. mainland: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. mainland: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Mainland, mainland: Dictionary.com
  14. mainland: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Mainland (Shetland), Mainland (band), Mainland (cheese), Mainland, The Mainland (Father Ted): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Mainland: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. mainland: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. mainland: Rhymezone
  19. mainland: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. mainland: FreeDictionary.org
  21. mainland: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. mainland: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Mainland, mainland: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. mainland: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. the mainland: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See mainlander as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Mainland)

▸ noun:  The continent; the principal land, as distinguished from islands or a peninsula.
▸ noun:  The principal island of a group.
▸ noun:  (Northern Ireland) Great Britain.
▸ noun:  The largest island in the Orkney Islands council area, to the north of Scotland.
▸ noun:  The largest island in the Shetland Islands council area, to the north of both Orkney and Scotland.
▸ noun:  (historical) A historical region in British Columbia, British North America, British Empire

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terra firma, island, subcontinent, iland, Indian subcontinent, Spanish Main, Antarctic Peninsula, Mauritius, yland, coastland, more...

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island, isle, atoll, archipelago, key

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Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Australia, Antarctica, more...

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the mainland, mainland China, mainland Chinese, Lower Mainland, mainland island, more...

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chinese, american, greek, asian, italian, european, asiatic, adjacent, australian, north, japanese

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Similar:
terra firma, island, subcontinent, iland, Indian subcontinent, Spanish Main, Antarctic Peninsula, Mauritius, yland, coastland, more...

Opposite:
island, isle, atoll, archipelago, key

Types:
Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Australia, Antarctica, more...

Phrases:
the mainland, mainland China, mainland Chinese, Lower Mainland, mainland island, Mainland Southeast Asia, COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China, Visa policy of mainland China, more...

Adjectives:
chinese, american, greek, asian, italian, european, asiatic, adjacent, australian, north, japanese

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    green,     brown,     blue,     gray,     beige, more...



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