Meaning

7 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The land immediately next to, and inland from, a coast.

    Binnenland, Hinterland, Inland

    побережьеpoberežʹje

  2. (countable, uncountable)The rural territory surrounding an urban area, especially a port.

    Umland, Hinterland

    пригородprigorod

  3. (countable, uncountable)A remote or undeveloped area.

    Provinz, plattes Land

    захолу́стьеzaxolústʹje, глуби́нкаglubínka, глушьglušʹ

    a remote and undeveloped area

  4. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)That which is unknown or unexplored about someone.

    Near-synonym: shadow

  5. (countable, uncountable)An area of land far from the sea.

  6. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)Anything vague or ill-defined, especially something that is ill understood.

    Near-synonym: shadowland

  7. (UK, countable, uncountable)An individual's depth and breadth of knowledge, especially a politician's in areas outside politics, such as of academic, artistic, cultural, literary and scientific pursuits.

Examples

2 sentences
  1. He lives in a small town in the hinterlands.

    ruОн живёт в маленьком захолустном городке.

    deEr lebt in einer kleinen Provinzstadt.

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  2. Gdansk has the best hinterland connections into Central and Eastern Europe.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 3
land immediately next to a coast:
rural territory surrounding urban area:
remote or undeveloped area:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
land immediately next to a coast:
rural territory surrounding urban area:
remote or undeveloped area:

Origin

Borrowed from German Hinterland, from hinter (“behind”) + Land (“land”), cognate to Englis

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).

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