heartland
English edit
Etymology edit
A map of the world heartland (indicated as “pivot area”; sense 2.1.1) from the English geographer Halford John Mackinder’s article The Geographical Pivot of History (1904).
A playground in Woodlands, a residential town in the North Region, which is regarded as being in the heartland (sense 2.1.2) of Singapore.
From heart (“(figuratively) centre, core, essence”) + land.[1]
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈhɑːtlənd/, /-lænd/
- (General American) enPR: härtʹ-lənd, IPA(key): /ˈhɑɹtlənd/, /-ˌlænd/
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: heart‧land
Noun edit
heartland (plural heartlands)
- Synonym of heart (“the seat of the affections or love”)
- Also in the plural form heartlands:
- The interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant.
- 1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 9, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001, part 2, page 172:
- [R]ound the Pole all three powers lay claim to enormous territories which in fact are largely uninhabited and unexplored: but the balance of power always remains roughly even, and the territory which forms the heartland of each super-state always remains inviolate.
- (specifically) In the geopolitical theory of the English geographer Halford John Mackinder (1861–1947): the interior of the world island comprising north-central Eurasia regarded as politically powerful.
- Coordinate term: rimland
- (specifically, Singapore, chiefly in the plural) Residential districts and planning areas outside the city centre; the new towns of Singapore collectively.
- 2003, Anais [pseudonym], soc.culture.singapore (Usenet):
- Those in the HDB [Housing and Development Board] heartland will be able to vote in the airconditioned comfort of their community centres […]
- 2001 March 16, Alfred Dass, Today, Singapore: Mediacorp Press, →OCLC, page 8:
- Take heart, small-time shopkeepers in the heartlands.
- 2003 July 23, Jason Lee Boon Hong, Today, Singapore: Mediacorp Press, →OCLC, page 10:
- I applaud the organising committee's decision to hold the concert in the heartlands.
- (specifically, US, often attributively) The states in the centre of the United States, chiefly regarded as politically and socially conservative; also, the people living in such states collectively.
- Synonym: Middle America
- A region or part of a region particularly associated with or significant for a characteristic, such as an activity, a faith, support for a political party or other organization, etc.
- The home counties are the Conservative heartland.
- We stayed in the heartland of the French wine-growing regions.
- The interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
synonym of heart (“seat of the affections or love”) — see heart
interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant
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interior of the world island comprising north-central Eurasia regarded as politically powerful
(Singapore) residential districts outside the city centre
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states in the centre of the United States, chiefly regarded as politically and socially conservative; people living in such states collectively
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region or part of a region particularly associated with or significant for a characteristic
References edit
- ^ “heartland, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, July 2023; “heartland, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Further reading edit
The Geographical Pivot of History on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - new towns of Singapore on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- heartland (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
