Hinterland

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The land directly adjacent to and inland from a coast.
  • n. A region remote from urban areas; backcountry.
  • n. A region situated beyond metropolitan centers of culture.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The land immediately next to, and inland from, a coast.
  • n. The rural territory surrounding an urban area, especially a port.
  • n. A remote or undeveloped area, a backwater.
  • n. Anything vague or ill-defined, especially one that is ill understood.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. a remote and undeveloped area; originally, the land or region lying behind the coast district. The term is used esp. with reference to the so-called doctrine of the hinterland, sometimes advanced, that occupation of the coast supports a claim to an exclusive right to occupy, from time to time, the territory lying inland of the coast.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Territory that lies back of and is tributary to a coast region or port.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a remote and undeveloped area
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    rural area    country   
    Cross Reference
    foreland   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    backwoods    back country    boondocks    sticks    remote place   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    landmass    seaboard    steppe    Highlands    tinamou   
     
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