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The big landmass that islands secretly resent for hogging the word land.
means The principal continuous landmass of a country or region, as opposed to its surrounding islands or peninsulas.
from Plain Old English honesty: main (chief, principal) plus land — literally the chief land, the bit you didn't have to sail to.
Relative termEvery island is some other place's mainland.
Loaded wordIn Taiwan, mainland carries heavy political weight.
Britain tooGreat Britain is mainland to its smaller isles.