mainlands
- 1Plural of mainland.
The expedition compared bird species across several mainlands and their offshore islands.
Ancient trade routes once linked the mainlands of three distant continents.
Note
A regular plural that only some meanings of mainland can take. It fits the common-noun uses: continents set against their offshore islands, or the principal islands of several island groups, as in comparative geography. The Northern Irish 'the mainland' for Great Britain and the islands named Mainland in Orkney and Shetland each refer to a single place, so they stay singular.
mainlands is a form of mainland
mainland, noun: The principal body of land of a country or region, as distinguished from its islands or a peninsula. Full entry
- Forms
- mainlandmainlands plural
- Spelling
- mainland → mainlands: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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