Definitions
the main land mass of a country or continent; as distinguished from an island or peninsula
Word origin
From Middle English mayne londe; equivalent to main + land. Compare Scots mayn-land, magan-land, madin-land (“mainland”), Faroese meginland (“mainland”), Icelandic meginland (“mainland”).
Used in a sentence
“[…]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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Continental portion”8 letters
02“Continental landmass”8 letters
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