Dictionary

mainlander en · NOUN

Etymology

From mainland + -er.

Meanings

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 high-octane gas. Now it is closed, and one-fifth of the town's population are out of work. It is not surprising that at Chiayi last month there was fierce fighting against the mainlanders. 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.

Forms

Translations (35)

ja 本土人 (someone who lives on the mainland) · de Festlandbewohner (someone who lives on the mainland) · cs pevniňan (someone who lives on the mainland) · et mandrilane (someone who lives on the mainland) · cmn 唐山人 (someone who lives on the mainland) · nan-hbl 阿山 (someone who lives on the mainland) · hak 長山仔 /长山仔 (someone who lives on the mainland) · nn landbu (someone who lives on the mainland) · ru жи́тель материка́ (someone who lives on the mainland) · cmn 26 (someone who lives on the mainland) · ru жи́тельница материка́ (someone who lives on the mainland) · nan-hbl 大陸人 /大陆人 (someone who lives on the mainland) · hak 阿山仔 (someone who lives on the mainland) · de Festlandbewohnerin (someone who lives on the mainland) · nan-hbl 阿六仔 (someone who lives on the mainland) · nn fastlandsbu (someone who lives on the mainland) · sv fastlänning (someone who lives on the mainland) · gd mòr-thìreach (someone who lives on the mainland) · de Festlandsbewohnerin (someone who lives on the mainland) · grc ἠπειρώτης (someone who lives on the mainland) · cmn 大陸人 /大陆人 (someone who lives on the mainland) · et massakas (someone who lives on the mainland) · de Festländerin (someone who lives on the mainland) · vi người ở đất liền (someone who lives on the mainland) · nan-hbl 阿陸仔 /阿陆仔 (someone who lives on the mainland) · nan-hbl 外省人 (someone who lives on the mainland) · yue 大陸人 /大陆人 (someone who lives on the mainland) · fi mannermaalainen (someone who lives on the mainland) · hak 外省人 (someone who lives on the mainland) · sv fastlandsbo (someone who lives on the mainland) · cmn 外省人 (someone who lives on the mainland) · de Festländer (someone who lives on the mainland) · cs obyvatel pevniny (someone who lives on the mainland) · nan-hbl 唐山人 (someone who lives on the mainland) · de Festlandsbewohner (someone who lives on the mainland)