Main″land′ (?), n. The continent; the principal land; — opposed to island, or peninsula. Dryden.
After the two wayfarers had crossed from the peninsula to the mainland. Hawthorne.
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Webster's Dictionary 1913
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.