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mainlander

mainlander noun: someone who lives on the mainland.

Noun

mainlander (plural mainlanders)

  1. Someone who lives on the mainland.
  2. A person from mainland China, as opposed to someone from Hong Kong, Macau or Taiwan.
    • Since many factories have not been repaired or are operating at low capacity, there is much unemployment. Repatriation of overseas Taiwanese has aggravated the problem, which the government has made no real effort to solve. During the war the Japanese built at Chiayi a large factory for making...1947 June 7, Peggy Durdin, “Taiwan : China's Unhappy Colony”, in The Nation, volume 164, number 23, New York, page 686
  3. Someone who lives in mainland Europe, as opposed to the British Isles.

Proper noun capitalized: Mainlander

Mainlander

  1. Alternative letter-case form of mainlander (“a person from mainland China”).
    • In Pan-ch’iao of Taiwan county, people gathered at the railway station on the morning of February 28 and began beating Mainlanders or rounding them up and assembling them in one place.1991, Tse-han Lai, Ramon H. Myers, Wei Wou, “The Uprising”, in A Tragic Beginning: The Taiwan Uprising of February 28, 1947, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 122

mainlander meaning in Vietnamese

mainlander in Vietnamese

someone who lives on the mainland
người ở đất liền

Forms of mainlander

pluralmainlanders
alternative formMainlander

Origin of mainlander

From mainland + -er.

Questions about mainlander

What does mainlander mean?
Mainlander means someone who lives on the mainland.
What is mainlander in Vietnamese?
Mainlander in Vietnamese is người ở đất liền. See Mainlander meaning in Vietnamese.
What part of speech is mainlander?
Mainlander can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of mainlander?
The plural of mainlander is mainlanders.

Words near mainlander in the dictionary

  1. mainland
  2. mainland China
  3. mainland Chinese
  4. mainland clouded leopard
  5. mainland Europe
  6. mainlander
  7. mainlanders
  8. mainlandization
  9. mainlands
  10. mainlane
  11. mainlanes

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