hinterland
Often hinterlands. the remote or less developed parts of a country; back country: The hinterlands are usually much more picturesque than the urban areas.
the land lying behind a coastal region.
an area or sphere of influence in the unoccupied interior claimed by the state possessing the coast.
an inland area supplying goods, especially trade goods, to a port.
Origin of hinterland
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How to use hinterland in a sentence
It lacked a cohesive programming identity and existed within the same hazy hinterlands as IFC.
Sundance Channel’s ‘Rectify’ Is the Best New Show of 2013 | Jace Lacob | April 17, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTToday, an impenetrable ring of settlements isolates East Jerusalem from its Palestinian hinterlands.
They have taken over several small cities and seem to run rampant in the hinterlands.
Jews found a profitable niche as middlemen between farmers in the hinterlands and large export firms in the port.
James Patterson—I mean, Zeus—frequents a sex club in the Virginia hinterlands.
To be more precise, by the mental hinterlands of three or four thousand individuals.
The New Machiavelli | Herbert George WellsAcross her mind flashed a vivid picture of the journey, pregnant with adventure, across the wild hinterlands—they two together.
North of Fifty-Three | Bertrand W. SinclairThe land rises steadily from the sea as you get into the Hinterlands, and the mountain ranges run parallel to the sea.
Their natural pretensions to the hinterlands have been grievously curtailed, and what ought to have been British is now French.
Through South Africa | Henry M. StanleyIn one sense it was purely maritime, as its posts were all on the Bay shore, while the French traded chiefly in the hinterlands.
All Afloat | William Wood
British Dictionary definitions for hinterland
/ (ˈhɪntəˌlænd) /
land lying behind something, esp a coast or the shore of a river
remote or undeveloped areas of a country
an area located near and dependent on a large city, esp a port
Origin of hinterland
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