different between australia vs mainland

Latin

Adjective

austr?lia

1. nominative neuter plural of austr?lis
2. accusative neuter plural of austr?lis
3. vocative neuter plural of austr?lis

References

• australia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

English

Etymology

From Middle English mayne londe; equivalent to main +? land. Compare Scots mayn-land, magan-land, madin-land (“mainland”), Faroese meginland (“mainland”), Icelandic meginland (“mainland”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?me??nl?nd/

Noun

mainland (plural mainlands)

1. The continent; the principal land, as distinguished from islands or a peninsula.
   • 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe:

     ...I got to the mainland, where, to my great comfort, I clambered up the cliffs of the shore and sat me down upon the grass, free from danger and quite out of the reach of the water.

   • 2005, comment (not durably archived):

     You may have not realised when I was using the term mainland Europe, I was excluding the British Isles.

2. The principal island of a group.

Hypernyms

• land

Derived terms

• mainlander

Translations

References

• mainland on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• almandin