hinterland

CEFRC2

/ˈhɪntə(ɹ)ˌlænd/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    The land far from a coast or major city.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A remote or undeveloped area.

Examples

  • Gdansk has the best hinterland connections into Central and Eastern Europe.

  • 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.

At a glance

Sits at C2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
2
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • /-lənd/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. The rural territory surrounding an urban area, especially a port.

  2. The land immediately next to, and inland from, a coast.

  3. An area of land far from the sea.

More examples

In context

  • Near-synonym: shadow

  • Near-synonym: shadowland

  • 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.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

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).