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
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Recent Examples of landmasses
Planet operates a fleet of around 150 satellites that photograph most of Earth's landmasses on a daily basis.
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Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 10 Apr. 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
These climatic shifts allowed the formation of continual landmasses, including one that bridged Anatolia and Europe.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 18 Sep. 2025
Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 10 Apr. 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
These climatic shifts allowed the formation of continual landmasses, including one that bridged Anatolia and Europe.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 18 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for landmasses
Noun
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This was the final stop on Swift’s Eras Tour, which spanned 149 shows across five continents.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
9 Apr. 2026
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The directorial team on the film spanned three continents, with Sonam Choekyi Lama, an accomplished indigenous Nepalese photographer, working alongside Ben Ayers and Andrew Lynch.—
Stewart Clarke,
Deadline,
9 Apr. 2026
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The two mainlands themselves are only 55 miles apart where Alaska's Seward Peninsula and Russia's Chukotka Peninsula sit on opposite sides of the Bering Sea.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
15 Aug. 2025
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“Landmasses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/landmasses. Accessed 14 Apr. 2026.
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