Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun mainland

1 sense of mainland

Sense 1
mainland -- (the main land mass of a country or continent; as distinguished from an island or peninsula)
       => land, dry land, earth, ground, solid ground, terra firma -- (the solid part of the earth's surface; "the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land"; "the earth shook for several minutes"; "he dropped the logs on the ground")