mainland
noun
Origin of mainland
Mainland
noun
Examples from the Web for mainland
Contemporary Examples of mainland
In 1957, the islands came under repeated shelling by Mainland--or as it was then called, “Red”-- China.
The two islands are now tourist sites for visitors from Taiwan and mainland China.
Palombo, who was on the mainland at the time, told him to move on.
Even now, the protest sites see a good number of Mainland Chinese tourists who stop by to read the posters and banners.
Shoppers from Mainland China arrived in droves, and gained front row seats to civil disobedience in action.
Historical Examples of mainland
There be seven of them in all, lying off the town of Hampton on the mainland, about a league.
The Works of Whittier, Volume V (of VII)John Greenleaf Whittier
When I reached the mainland again I had sworn that I had been floating.
American NotesRudyard Kipling
They had proved that lower California was not an island but a part of the mainland.
Introductory American HistoryHenry Eldridge Bourne
On Friday, June 12, 1494, he discovered the mainland of America.
These were on the mainland and did not have to be reached by boat or by swimming.
The Story of Don QuixoteArvid Paulson, Clayton Edwards, and Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra