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mainlanders

mainlanders is the plural of mainlander.

Meaning of mainlander

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.

Noun capitalized: Mainlanders

Mainlanders

  1. (plural) plural of Mainlander

Questions about mainlanders

What is mainlanders the plural of?
Mainlanders is the plural of mainlander.
What part of speech is mainlanders?
Mainlanders is a noun.

Words near mainlanders in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mainlanders (page history and authors); Mainlanders (page history and authors); mainlander (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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