different between mainland vs rimland
mainland
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)
- 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.
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe:
- The principal island of a group.
Hypernyms
- land
Derived terms
- mainlander
Translations
References
- mainland on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- almandin
mainland From the web:
- what mainland is closest to hawaii
- what mainland city is closest to hawaii
- how far is hawaii from mainland
rimland
English
Etymology
rim +? land
Noun
rimland (plural rimlands)
- a land or region at the periphery of a heartland
Derived terms
- rimland theory
References
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
Anagrams
- mandril
rimland From the web:
- what's rimland theory
- what rimland means
- what does rimland meaning
- what is rimland
- what does remand mean
- what does rimland
- what is the rimland of the caribbean
- what does the rimland theory explain
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