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# landmass

«landmass» in Mova's school dictionary: **a very large, continuous area of land, such as a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (landmass, landmasses — also «land mass»)

### meaning for a pupil

A landmass is a very large, continuous area of land, such as a continent or a big island. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landmass/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In geography lessons, the seven continents are the main landmasses; Australia is the largest island landmass or the smallest continent. In science, the landmasses slowly move (plate tectonics), and long ago they were joined in a supercontinent called Pangaea. Common phrases: «a large landmass», «the Eurasian landmass», «the world's landmasses».

### examples

- Africa is a huge landmass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landmass/#x1)
- Pangaea was one giant landmass millions of years ago. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landmass/#x2)
- Greenland is the biggest island landmass that is not a continent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landmass/#x3)
- The world's landmasses cover about 29 per cent of the Earth's surface. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landmass/#x4)
- The map showed the landmasses in green and the oceans in blue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landmass/#x5)
- Europe and Asia form one landmass called Eurasia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landmass/#x6)

### note

Plural: landmasses. Can be written as one word or two. In maths and geography, «about 29 per cent» of Earth's surface is land; the rest (about 71 per cent) is water.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «landmass» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landmass/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.