Usually means: Primary continuous expanse of land.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word mainland:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. Mainland, mainland: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Mainland, mainland: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mainland: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mainland, the mainland: Collins English Dictionary
  5. mainland: Vocabulary.com
  6. Mainland, mainland: Wordnik
  7. mainland, the mainland: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Mainland, mainland: Wiktionary
  9. mainland: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. mainland: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. mainland: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Mainland, mainland: Dictionary.com
  13. mainland: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Mainland (Shetland), Mainland (band), Mainland (cheese), Mainland, The Mainland (Father Ted): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Mainland: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. mainland: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. mainland: Rhymezone
  18. mainland: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. mainland: Free Dictionary
  20. mainland: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. mainland: Dictionary/thesaurus

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.)

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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