Synonyms of landmasses

landmasses

noun

plural of landmass

as in continents

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

• continents
• mainlands
• mains
• subcontinents
• supercontinents

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• islands
• islets
• isles
• atolls
• keys
• coral reefs
• peninsulas
• capes
• headlands
• cays
• barrier reefs
• promontories

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of landmasses

The visually inflated size of certain landmasses such as Greenland on the Mercator map may even have geopolitical implications. — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 9 Sep. 2026

However, landmasses are greatly distorted toward the poles, particularly in the Northern Hemisphere. — Jewel Bright, NPR, 4 Sep. 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

There was SimEarth in 1990, in which the player tunes a planet’s atmospheric conditions, sculpts its landmasses, plunks down life-forms. — Eric Boodman, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2026

Her ink stains cohered into easily recognizable signs—butterflies, fighter jets, bodies of water, landmasses—that were complicated by text printed atop them. — Daniel R. Quiles, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2026

When several landmasses collided to form the supercontinent Pangea long before the dinosaurs, Earth’s crust shattered into discrete blocks and folded like a rug pushed against a wall, rising to form mountains spanning from the Appalachians to the Atlas. — Evan Howell, Scientific American, 4 Feb. 2026

With a constellation of eyes in the sky, forecasters could suddenly monitor conditions over oceans and remote landmasses, filling in major gaps in their models and providing an early warning system about potential storms forming far away. — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2025

Instead, Smyth believes the Lucky pterosaurs and other juvenile Pterodactylus antiquus specimens lived on the landmasses near the lagoons. — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2025