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hinterland

[ hin-ter-land ]

noun

  1. Often hinterlands. the remote or less developed parts of a country; back country:

    The hinterlands are usually much more picturesque than the urban areas.

  2. the land lying behind a coastal region.
  3. an area or sphere of influence in the unoccupied interior claimed by the state possessing the coast.
  4. an inland area supplying goods, especially trade goods, to a port.


hinterland

/ ˈhɪntəˌlænd /

noun

  1. land lying behind something, esp a coast or the shore of a river
  2. remote or undeveloped areas of a country
  3. an area located near and dependent on a large city, esp a port


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Word History and Origins

Origin of hinterland1

1885–90; < German: literally, hinder land, i.e., land behind

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Word History and Origins

Origin of hinterland1

C19: from German, from hinter behind + land land ; see hinder ²

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Example Sentences

Utah, USA Brigham Young was definitely onto something when he sought to build his Mormon “Zion” in the rugged hinterland of Utah.

It is a new phenomenon for girls from the hinterland to leave home to work or study, to have male friends.

Would it sever a future Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem from its West Bank hinterland?

It was necessary to cleanse the hinterland and cleanse the border areas and cleanse the main roads.

Unemployment spreads from State to State, the hinterland now settled that, in pioneer days gave an avenue of escape.

Not much use as the high crests hid the intervening hinterland from view, even from the crow's nests.

From the hinterland in a vast solid stream the ice flowed, with heavily crevassed downfalls near the coast.

As the ice of the hinterland moves forward, it plucks fragments from the rocky floor.

There was no mark by which to steer, except a "water-sky" to the north, the hinterland being clouded over.

This vast block of ice originates fundamentally from the glacial flow over the southern hinterland.

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