Hinterlander
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 One who lives in the hinterland.
"The enduring suspicion of some rural hinterlanders is that the Northwest’s precious environment, of mountains, forest, ocean, is merely an urban weekend amenity, to be saved from the local yokels by crusading Seattleites who recoil from the prospect of actually living in it."
Example
More examples"The enduring suspicion of some rural hinterlanders is that the Northwest’s precious environment, of mountains, forest, ocean, is merely an urban weekend amenity, to be saved from the local yokels by crusading Seattleites who recoil from the prospect of actually living in it."
Etymology
From hinterland + -er.
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