My mother was born in the heartland of America, but my father grew up herding goats in Kenya.
Source: tatoeba (3044887)
Heartland
//ˈhɑːtlənd//
Synonyms for "heartland" (46 found)
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30 translations across 15 languages.
Azerbaijani
1 entries- ocaq noun (interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 心臟地帶 /心脏地带 noun (interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant)
- 鄰里社区 noun ((Singapore) residential districts outside the city centre)
Dutch
2 entries- centrum noun (interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant)
- kern noun (interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant)
Dzongkha
1 entries- གཞུང noun (interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant)
Finnish
4 entries- Euroopan sydänmaat noun (interior of the world island comprising north-central Eurasia regarded as politically powerful)
- Yhdysvaltain sydänmaat noun (states in the centre of the United States, chiefly regarded as politically and socially conservative; people living in such states collectively)
- keskustan ulkopuoliset alueet noun ((Singapore) residential districts outside the city centre)
- rintamaa noun (interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant)
French
1 entries- centre noun (interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant)
German
3 entries- Hochburg noun (region or part of a region particularly associated with or significant for a characteristic)
- Kerngebiet noun (interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant)
- Kernland noun (interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant)
Irish
1 entries- croíthailte noun (interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant)
Macedonian
1 entries- сре́дишен дел noun (interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant)
Māori
1 entries- manowhenua noun (interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant)
Portuguese
1 entries- coração noun (interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant)
Spanish
2 entries- corazón noun (interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant)
- núcleo noun (interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant)
Swedish
3 entries- hjärta noun (interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant)
- kärnland noun (interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant)
- kärnområde noun (interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant)
Ukrainian
1 entries- осере́ддя noun (interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant)
Welsh
2 entries- perfedd noun (interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant)
- perfeddwlad noun (interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
Boumerdes has become Algeria's grapes heartland.
Source: tatoeba (8583533)
Naivasha is Kenya's floriculture heartland and workers at Van den Berg Kenya are trimming, packing and refrigerating bundles of roses.
Source: tatoeba (11161441)
[R]ound the Pole all three powers lay claim to enormous territories which in fact are largely uninhabited and unexplored: but the balance of power always remains roughly even, and the territory which forms the heartland of each super-state always remains inviolate.
Source: wiktionary
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