Definition of Mainland

Mainland

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

Related Definitions:

Continent, Island, Land, Opposed, Or, Peninsula, Principal, The, To

Mainland Quotations

Zhang Yimou is one of the best directors on mainland China.
Jet Li

I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.
Jacques Maritain

We decided to play the NEC because we were asked to, and because we actually rather like the place: we've always enjoyed doing it before. We don't often get sensible offers to play in the UK, so most years we just play on the mainland, with the occasional exotic detour.
Andrew Eldritch

And so, I mean, he declared war right there and then in so many words and Alex says later in the book, nobody in the White House from that point on had any doubt that we were going to bomb the mainland of Asia.
James Stockdale

A trip to the mainland was a big event and happened maybe once a year, although now you can get across in a speed boat in seven minutes but then it was a long way away.
Jeremy Irons

But if the Chinese mainland, the PRC, attacked Taiwan, we'd be obligated to come to their aid.
Fred Thompson

I would love mainland Chinese to read my book. There is a Chinese translation which I worked on myself, published in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Many copies have gone into China but it is still banned.
Jung Chang

Six months after that, I left Taiwan, first for Hong Kong and then for mainland China, where I spent another three months studying still more Chinese and generally kicking around the country.
Eric Allin Cornell

The avian influenza found in mainland British Columbia poses no significant threat to human health.
John Clifford

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Mainland Translations

mainland in Afrikaans is vasteland
mainland in Danish is fastland, verdensdel
mainland in Dutch is continent, werelddeel, vasteland
mainland in Finnish is maanosa
mainland in French is continent
mainland in German is Kontinent
mainland in Italian is continente, terraferma
mainland in Spanish is continente
mainland in Swedish is fastland

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