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hinterland

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Noun
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hin=ter=land

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun hinterland has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

hinterlandn. [G.; hinter behind + land land.].
     a remote and undeveloped area; originally, the land or region lying behind the coast district. The term is used esp. with reference to the so-called doctrine of the hinterland, sometimes advanced, that occupation of the coast supports a claim to an exclusive right to occupy, from time to time, the territory lying inland of the coast.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

hinterland, n.
1 the often deserted or uncharted areas beyond a coastal district or a river's banks.
2 an area served by a port or other centre.
3 a remote or fringe area.

Etymology
G f. hinter behind + Land LAND

THESAURUS

hinterland

airspace, area, arena, back, back country, backcountry, backdrop, background, backwash, backwater, backwoods, belt, boondock, boondocks, borderland, brush, bush, bush country, bushveld, confines, continental shelf, corridor, country, department, distance, district, division, environs, field, forests, frontier, ground, heartland, inland, inlands, interior, land, locale, midland, midlands, milieu, mise-en-scene, neighborhood, offshore rights, outback, outpost, part, parts, place, precincts, premises, purlieus, quarter, rear, region, salient, scene, section, setting, soil, space, stage, stage set, stage setting, sticks, terrain, territory, the bush, theater, three-mile limit, timbers, twelve-mile limit, uninhabited region, up-country, vicinage, vicinity, virgin land, virgin territory, wasteland, wild West, wilderness, wilds, woodlands, woods, zone

ROGET THESAURUS

hinterland

Rear

N rear, back, posteriority, rear rank, rear guard, background, hinterland, occiput, nape, chine, heels, tail, rump, croup, buttock, posteriors, backside scut, breech, dorsum, loin, dorsal region, lumbar region, hind quarters, aitchbone, natch, natch bone, stern, poop, afterpart, heelpiece, crupper, wake, train, reverse, other side of the shield, back, rear, hind, hinder, hindmost, hindermost, postern, posterior, dorsal, after, caudal, lumbar, mizzen, tergal, behind, in the rear, in the background, behind one's back, at the heels of, at the tail of, at the back of, back to back, after, aft, abaft, astern, sternmost, aback, rearward, ogni medaglia ha il suo rovescio, the other side of the coin.

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