MAINLAND    大陸

LANDSCAPE NOT IMAGINED as SURROUNDED BY SEA.
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 ／
Antonym
  • ISLANDTERRITORY SURROUNDED by WATER on ALL SIDES
Hypernym
  • LANDSCAPE　FEATURES of TERRITORY. (anc: 6/0, child: 8)
  • TERRITORY　PLACE INSIDE DEFINED BOUNDARIES. (anc: 5/0, child: 7)
  • PLACE　PART of SPACE that THINGS BE-IN:are-in. (anc: 4/0, child: 39)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 1.26

    • Words (2 items)

    陸  lù OC: m-ruɡ MC: luk 0 Attributions
      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 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPmainland ???? [check earliest occurrence]