hinterland
Plural: hinterlands
Noun
- a remote and undeveloped area
- 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.
- That which is unknown or unexplored about someone.
- An area of land far from the sea.
- Anything vague or ill-defined, especially something that is ill understood.
Origin / 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. 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).
Synonyms
back country, backwoods, boondocks, Actual places, Anytown, BFE, Bumblefuck, Bumfuck, Buttfuck, East Bumfuck, East Jesus, Egypt, Fictional places, Hicksville, Idaho, Iowa, Isolated place, Isolated town, Kansas, Minnesota, Nowhere, Nowheresville, Ohio, Outer Mongolia, Podunk, Squedunk, Timbuktu, Whateverville, Woop Woop, arse end of nowhere, back forty, back o' Bourke, back of beyond, backcountry, backwater, beyond the black stump, boondock, boonies, bumfuck middle of nowhere, bumfuck nowhere, bump in the road, dullsville, edge of the earth, edge of the world, ends of the earth, ends of the world, hinterland, interior, jerk-water, jerkwater, jerkwater town, middle of nowhere, north forty, off the beaten track, one-horse town, out of the way, sticks, the sticks, wide spot in the road, wop-wops
Scrabble Score: 14
hinterland: valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordhinterland: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
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