Synonyms for mainland
ˈmeɪnˌlænd, -ləndmain·land

Princeton's WordNet

1. mainlandnoun

   the main land mass of a country or continent; as distinguished from an island or peninsula

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1. • Land

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1. mainlandnoun

   Synonyms:
   continent

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1. mainlandnoun

   Synonyms:
   continent

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1. List of paraphrases for "mainland":

   continental, continent, albar, inland, hinterland, continentale, china, shelf, domestic, land

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1. United States:

   Maximum sustained winds are now 75 mph, and further strengthening is forecast over the coming days, hurricane Florence continues on a track to impact the United States mainland by Thursday or Friday.

2. Bonnie Glaser:

   There is less public support for forging economic cooperation agreements with the mainland, than there was when Ma Ying-jeou came to power, it's hard to see how this (meeting) is really going to help his party remain in power.

3. Chris Pocock:

   The mainland Chinese learned from their radars where these flights were going, what their targets were, and they began to build sites for the missiles but move them around, so they would build a site here, occupy that site for a while but if they thought the next flight would be going over here, they would move the missiles. It was a cat-and-mouse game, literally a black cat and mouse game between the routines from the flights from Taiwan and those air defense troops of the( Chinese) mainland, working out where the next flight would go.

4. Lai Tung-kwok:

   There is no legal arrangement for the transfer of a person to the mainland authorities and the Hong Kong government will handle all cases in accordance with the law of Hong Kong.

5. Chris Smith:

   A status quo U.S. policy is unsustainable if Beijing continues to insist that Hong Kong become like mainland China, the special privileges the U.S. grants to Hong Kong can only endure if Beijing fulfills its longstanding obligation under international law to maintain Hong Kong’s autonomy, guarantee human rights and allow free and fair elections in 2017 and beyond.