Synonyms of landmass

landmass

noun

ˈland-ˌmas 

as in continent

one of the great divisions of land on the globe or the main part of such a division

the islands of Ireland and Great Britain were once part of the Eurasian landmass

Synonyms & Similar Words

• continent
• mainland
• subcontinent
• main
• supercontinent

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• island
• islet
• isle
• atoll
• peninsula
• key
• coral reef
• cape
• promontory
• headland
• barrier reef
• cay

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of landmass

The eggs are believed to date back 72 million years ago to the Late Cretaceous period, when the region was part of the Ibero-Armorican Island, a prehistoric landmass made up of modern-day Spain, Portugal and southern France. — Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 23 May 2026

And Roosevelt explained in his summer radio addresses of 1941 that if the Germans win the war, the United States becomes an island within the world, with hostile empires dominating most of the world’s landmass. — David Frum, The Atlantic, 20 May 2026

This is a recognizably topological result — the size of each of the city’s landmasses doesn’t matter, nor does the length of the bridges between them. — Konstantin Kakaes, Quanta Magazine, 20 May 2026

Thankfully, New Yorkers have recently been freed from the agonizing personal calculus of whether to air-freight burritos across the landmass of North America. — Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 3 May 2026