hinterland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪntə(ɹ)ˌlænd/
ipa: /-lənd/
Forms: form: hinterlands
form: hinderland
Etymology: Borrowed from German Hinterland, from hinter (“behind”) + Land (“land”), cognate to English hinder (“back, rear”) + land. First used in English in 1888 by George Chisholm in his work Handbook of Commercial Geography originally as hinderland, but the current spelling (following German) became more popular. The term is characteristic of a thalassocratic analysis of space (from the point of view of a nation with maritime supremacy, such as 19th-century Britain).
Senses: examples: text: In West Wales it has never been possible until recently to exploit the magnificent natural harbour of Milford Haven, for there was no industrial hinterland.
ref: 1961 August, “New traffic flows in South Wales”, in Trains Illustrated, page 492:
hypernyms: land#Noun
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region#Noun
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place#Noun
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location#Noun
glosses: The land immediately next to, and inland from, a coast.
hypernyms: land#Noun
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area#Noun
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region#Noun
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location#Noun
glosses: The rural territory surrounding an urban area, especially a port.
examples: text: In the film, Hanks is a veteran traversing the Texas hinterlands during the Reconstruction period when he stumbles upon a lost young white girl (Helena Zengel) who only speaks Kiowa, and is forced to undergo a dangerous journey to bring the orphan to her family.
ref: 2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC:
synonyms: word: backwater#Noun
word: sticks#Noun
word: Isolated town
word: bump in the road
word: jerkwater
word: jerk-water
word: jerkwater town
word: one-horse town
word: wide spot in the road
word: Isolated place
word: arse end of nowhere
word: back of beyond
word: back forty
word: backcountry
word: backwater
word: backwoods
word: beyond the black stump
word: boondock
word: boondocks
word: boonies
word: bumfuck middle of nowhere
word: bumfuck nowhere
word: dullsville
word: edge of the earth
word: edge of the world
word: ends of the earth
word: ends of the world
word: hinterland
word: middle of nowhere
word: north forty
word: off the beaten track
word: out of the way
word: sticks
word: the sticks
word: Actual places
word: back o' Bourke
word: Outer Mongolia
word: Timbuktu
word: Tuktoyaktuk
word: Fictional places
word: Anytown
word: BFE
word: Bumblefuck
word: Bumfuck
word: Egypt
word: Idaho
word: Iowa
word: Kansas
word: Minnesota
word: Nowhere
word: Ohio
word: Buttfuck
word: East Bumfuck
word: East Jesus
word: Hicksville
word: Nowheresville
word: Podunk
word: Squedunk
word: Whateverville
word: wop-wops
word: Woop Woop
hypernyms: land#Noun
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area#Noun
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region#Noun
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place#Noun
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location#Noun
coordinate_terms: borderland#Noun
edgeland#Noun
glosses: A remote or undeveloped area.
examples: Near-synonym: shadow
hypernyms: mystery#Noun
glosses: That which is unknown or unexplored about someone.
hypernyms: land#Noun
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area#Noun
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region#Noun
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place#Noun
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location#Noun
synonyms: interior#Noun
backcountry#Noun
glosses: An area of land far from the sea.
examples: text: Near-synonym: shadowland
text: This approach utilizes concepts such as naming, describing, contrasting and equating to access the hinterland between structure and meaning, and to map out the subtle ways in which texts can naturalise the ideology of the perfect female form.
ref: abstract of 2007, Lesley Jeffries, Textual Construction of the Female Body
hypernyms: mystery#Noun
glosses: Anything vague or ill-defined, especially something that is ill understood.
Derived terms: hinterlander
Related terms: foreland