Meaning

1 senses
  1. A large, continuous area of land surrounded by sea or contiguous with another landmass.

    Landfläche, Landmasse, Festland

    су́шаsúša, твердьtverdʹ

    a large continuous extent of land

Examples

3 sentences
  1. Madagascar was one of the last major landmasses on earth to be colonized by humans.

    CC BY · Tatoeba · The_World_Factbook · C2Open on TatoebaReport a problem
  2. More than one hundred twenty-five landmasses make up the Galapagos.

    CC0 · Tatoeba · Cangarejo · C2Open on TatoebaReport a problem
  3. Owing to its landmass, the Antarctic has an air temperature lower than that of the Arctic.

    deIn der Antarktis ist aufgrund der Landmasse die Lufttemperatur niedriger als in der Arktis.

    CC BY · Tatoeba · sundown · C2Open on TatoebaReport a problem

Translations

4 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
large continuous area of land:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
large continuous area of land:

Origin

From land + mass.

From land + mass.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

plural: landmasses

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
landmass — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto