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hinterland
noun 
  1. The land immediately next to, and inland from, a coast.
  2. The rural territory surrounding an urban area, especially a port.
  3. A remote or undeveloped area, a backwater.
    • 2007, Lesley Jeffries, http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=262132 Textual Construction of the Female Body, abstract
    • : This approach utilizes concepts such as naming, describing, contrasting and equating to access the between structure and meaning, and to map out the subtle ways in which texts can naturalise the ideology of the perfect female form.
Translations: 
  • Dutch: (t, nl, hinterland, n), (t, nl, achterland, n)
Etymology: From Hinterland, from (term, hinter, , behind, lang=de) + (term, land, , land, lang=de).

     
 
  

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