mainland

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈmeɪnlænd/    美 /ˈmeɪnlənd/|/-lænd/|/mæɪnlænd/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
  2. The principal island of a group.
  3. Great Britain. Northern-Ireland
    — 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.

词形变化

mainlands plural

词汇关系

衍生词
mainland China mainland Chinese mainland clouded leopard mainlander mainland Europe mainlandization mainland Japan

词源

From Middle English mayne londe; equivalent to main + land. Compare Scots mayn-land, magan-land, madin-land (“mainland”), Faroese meginland (“mainland”), Icelandic meginland (“mainland”).
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