landmass
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- noun
- /ˈlændˌmæs/
- Canada's total population is around 30 million, yet the landmass is comparable to Russia.
- Eurasian landmass
- continental landmass
- largest landmass
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Watch on YouTubeIf you scale up to a larger landmass, will it still work?
- If you scale up to a larger landmass, will it still work?
- So they put a fictional landmass there.
- Sweet sweet Dan is going to be holding on the Fort and in his total landmass like editing game.
- I'll tell you bunghole of a landmass.
- But they have finally arrived, you guys, and this is the final addition to the landmass giveaways.
- They're constrained by their landmass because they don't have like they're constrained by their landmass because they don't have the natural buffers that we have.
Examples
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The State covers a landmass double the size of Texas but we have a population of only 200,000 people.
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Across from it rose the dark landmass that was Kowloon, and beyond Kowloon lay China.
Fiction book (2000) -
If you scale up to a larger landmass, will it still work?
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Look at all this landmass here, okay?
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And Canada has similar problem of one of the problems that Australia has, which is large landmass, not a ton of people.
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Australia does have similar challenges to Canada, Large landmass, small sort of dense population centers.
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And so now you're looking at a landmass that is about three states of Texas.
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South America, like Australia and Madagascar today, was largely isolated from other landmasses by ocean barriers for millions of years.
Academic text (2009) -
Eurasia is the world's largest landmass, encompassing the largest number of competing societies.
Academic text (1999) -
More than 80 percent of the landmass is covered by ice, in some places two miles thick.
Synonyms
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A large area of land with similar features like climate or plants
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A large area of land on Earth, like Africa or Asia
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A large area of land not divided into smaller parts
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A large area of land that is not separated by water
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A large part of a continent separated from others by land or culture
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A piece of land used for a specific purpose like building or farming
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A large area of land used for a certain purpose
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A part of the Earth's surface with clear borders or features
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Part of the Earth's surface with shared natural or human features
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A very large area of land that forms when several continents join together
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An area of land with clear borders for geography, government, or culture
A large area of land treated as one unit
Antonyms
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Etymology
Landmass combines land ('ground') and mass ('large body' or 'lump'). So it literally means a big, continuous body of land, which is why we use it for large areas like continents.