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







    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

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          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
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        • NPmainland ???? [check earliest occurrence]

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