MAINLAND  大陸

LANDSCAPE NOT IMAGINED as SURROUNDED BY SEA.
Antonym
  • ISLANDTERRITORY SURROUNDED by WATER on ALL SIDES.
    Hypernym
    • LANDSCAPEFEATURES of TERRITORY.
      • TERRITORYPLACE INSIDE DEFINED BOUNDARIES.
        • PLACEPART of SPACE that THINGS BE-IN:are-in.
          • PARTOBJECT which COMBINES with OTHER OBJECTS to BECOME ONE LARGER WHOLE OBJECT....
    Modern Chinese Criteria
    陸地

    大陸

    陸

    洲

    地

    rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／

    • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 1.26

    Words

    陸  lù OC: m-ruɡ MC: luk 0 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • nMO: land (as opposed to water shuǐ 水), not necessarily opposed to an island but usually referring to land on the mainland
    大陸  dà lù OC: daads m-ruɡ MC: dɑi luk 0 AttributionsWD
      Syntactic words
    • NPmainland ???? [check earliest occurrence]

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