hinterland
See also: Hinterland
English edit
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Etymology edit
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.[1] The term is characteristic of a thalassocratic analysis of space (from the point of view of a nation, such as 19th-century Britain, with maritime supremacy).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
hinterland (countable and uncountable, plural hinterlands)
- The land immediately next to, and inland from, a coast.
- 1961 August, “New traffic flows in South Wales”, in Trains Illustrated, page 492:
- 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.
- The rural territory surrounding an urban area, especially a port.
- A remote or undeveloped area, a backwater.
- 2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC[1]:
- 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.
- (figuratively) That which is unknown or unexplored about someone.
- (figuratively) Anything vague or ill-defined, especially something that is ill understood.
- abstract of 2007, Lesley Jeffries, Textual Construction of the Female Body:
- 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.
- abstract of 2007, Lesley Jeffries, Textual Construction of the Female Body:
Synonyms edit
- See: Thesaurus:remote place
- (the) sticks
Translations edit
land immediately next to a coast
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rural territory surrounding urban area
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remote or undeveloped area
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See also edit
References edit
- ^ “hinterland”, in Encyclopædia Britannica, 2019 September 20 (last accessed)
- “hinterland”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
From German Hinterland.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
hinterland n (plural hinterlanden, diminutive hinterlandje n)
- hinterland (rural territory, backwater)
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French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from German Hinterland.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
hinterland m (plural hinterlands)
Further reading edit
- “hinterland”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from German Hinterland.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ˈin.ter.land/[1]
- Rhymes: -interland
- Hyphenation: hìn‧ter‧land
Noun edit
hinterland m (invariable)
References edit
- ^ hinterland in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from German Hinterland.
Noun edit
hinterland n (plural hinterlanduri)
Declension edit
Declension of hinterland
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) hinterland | hinterlandul | (niște) hinterlanduri | hinterlandurile |
| genitive/dative | (unui) hinterland | hinterlandului | (unor) hinterlanduri | hinterlandurilor |
| vocative | hinterlandule | hinterlandurilor | ||