landmass
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3.4
- noun
- /ˈlændˌmæs/
:
masa de tierra
- Canada's total population is around 30 million, yet the landmass is comparable to Russia.
- Eurasian landmass
- continental landmass
- largest landmass
If 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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2.0
A large area of land with similar features like climate or plants
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1.0
A large area of land on Earth, like Africa or Asia
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5.6
A large area of land not divided into smaller parts
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2.8
A large area of land that is not separated by water
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5.1
A large part of a continent separated from others by land or culture
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4.1
A large area of land used for a certain purpose
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2.7
A piece of land used for a specific purpose like building or farming
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3.0
Part of the Earth's surface with shared natural or human features
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7.0
A very large area of land that forms when several continents join together
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2.3
A part of the Earth's surface with clear borders or features
A large area of land treated as one unit
An area of land with clear borders for geography, government, or culture
Antonyms
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
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.