Definitions for hinterland

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hinterland hin·ter·land

Spelling: [hin-ter-land]

IPA: /ˈhɪn tərˌlænd/

Hinterland is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 771 anagrams from letters in hinterland (adehilnnrt).

Definitions for hinterland

noun

1. Often, hinterlands. the remote or less developed parts of a country; back country:
2. the land lying behind a coastal region.
3. an area or sphere of influence in the unoccupied interior claimed by the state possessing the coast.
4. an inland area supplying goods, especially trade goods, to a port.

Origin of hinterland

1885-90; German: literally, hinder land, i.e., land behind

Examples for hinterland

It is a new phenomenon for girls from the hinterland to leave home to work or study, to have male friends.

And she had never been with him after death; that had been a mirage in the hinterland of the mind.

It was necessary to cleanse the hinterland and cleanse the border areas and cleanse the main roads.

There is no word of the 'hinterland,' for neither the term nor the idea had then been thought of.

In the hinterland of this there was that vision of a wedding somewhere.

The hinterland of the Province of Ungava is also a Canadian possession.

It remains to be seen how Zadar and the hinterland will serve two masters.

I hope some day, if I live, to deal faithfully with Aden's hinterland policy.

Unemployment spreads from State to State, the hinterland now settled that, in pioneer days gave an avenue of escape.

Would it sever a future Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem from its West Bank hinterland?