hinterland
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Borrowing from German Hinterland, from hinter (“behind”) + Land (“land”). First used in English in 1888 by George Chisholm in his work Handbook of Commercial Geography.[1] The term is characteristic of thalassocratic analysis of space.
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Wikipedia hinterland (plural hinterlands)
- The land immediately next to, and inland from, a coast.
- The rural territory surrounding an urban area, especially a port.
- A remote or undeveloped area, a backwater.
- (figuratively) Anything vague or ill-defined, especially one that is ill understood.
- 2007, Lesley Jeffries, Textual Construction of the Female Body, abstract
- 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.
- 2007, Lesley Jeffries, Textual Construction of the Female Body, abstract
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- See: Wikisaurus:remote place
- (the) sticks
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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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[edit] Dutch
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From German Hinterland.
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- IPA: /ˈhintərlɑnt/
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hinterland n. (plural hinterlanden, diminutive hinterlandje)
- hinterland (rural territory, backwater)
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[edit] Italian
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hinterland m. inv.
