About The Word Hinterland
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Hinterland
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What's The Definition Of Hinterland?
[n] a remote and undeveloped area
Synonyms | Synonyms for Hinterland: back country | backwoods | boondocks Related Terms | Find terms related to 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 See Also | country | rural area Hinterland In Webster's Dictionary \Hin"ter*land`\, n. [G.; hinter behind + land land.]
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.
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