hinterland
English
Alternative forms
- hinderland (dated)
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.[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
- IPA(key): /ˈhɪntə(ɹ)ˌlænd/
Audio (AU) (file)
Noun
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.
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- 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:
- 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.
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- (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
- See: Thesaurus:remote place
- (the) sticks
Translations
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See also
- foreland
References
- “hinterland”, in Encyclopædia Britannica, accessed 20 September 2019
- “hinterland”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Dutch
Etymology
From German Hinterland.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɦɪntərlɑnt/
Audio (file)
Noun
hinterland n (plural hinterlanden, diminutive hinterlandje n)
- hinterland (rural territory, backwater)
Synonyms
- achterland
French
Etymology
From German Hinterland.
Pronunciation
- (aspirated or mute h) IPA(key): /in.tɛʁ.lɑ̃d/
Noun
hinterland m (plural hinterlands)
- hinterland
Further reading
- “hinterland”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from German Hinterland.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈin.ter.land/[1]
- Rhymes: -interland
- Hyphenation: hìn‧ter‧land
Noun
hinterland m (invariable)
- hinterland, interior
References
- hinterland in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Romanian
Etymology
From German Hinterland.
Noun
hinterland n (plural hinterlanduri)
- hinterland
Declension
singular | plural | |||
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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 |