Hinterland

//ˈhɪntə(ɹ)ˌlænd//

Synonyms for "hinterland" (160 found)

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Related words (80)

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Synonyms

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related to

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Translations

57 translations across 20 languages.

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Catalan

2 entries
  • rerepaís noun (land immediately next to a coast)
  • rerepaís noun (rural territory surrounding urban area)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries
  • 偏遠地區 /偏远地区 noun (remote or undeveloped area)
  • 內地 /内地 noun (land immediately next to a coast)
  • 落後地區 /落后地区 noun (remote or undeveloped area)
  • 郊區 /郊区 noun (rural territory surrounding urban area)

Dutch

4 entries
  • achterland noun (land immediately next to a coast)
  • achterland noun (rural territory surrounding urban area)
  • achterland noun (remote or undeveloped area)
  • binnenland noun (land immediately next to a coast)

Estonian

3 entries
  • sisemaa noun (land immediately next to a coast)
  • tagamaa noun (rural territory surrounding urban area)
  • ääremaa noun (remote or undeveloped area)

Finnish

4 entries
  • peräkylä noun (remote or undeveloped area)
  • sisämaa noun (land immediately next to a coast)
  • syrjäseutu noun (rural territory surrounding urban area)
  • takamaa noun (remote or undeveloped area)

French

2 entries
  • arrière-pays noun (land immediately next to a coast)
  • arrière-pays noun (rural territory surrounding urban area)

German

4 entries
  • Binnenland noun (land immediately next to a coast)
  • Hinterland noun (land immediately next to a coast)
  • Hinterland noun (rural territory surrounding urban area)
  • Inland noun (land immediately next to a coast)

Greek

1 entries
  • ενδοχώρα noun (land immediately next to a coast)

Irish

2 entries
  • cúlchríoch noun (land immediately next to a coast)
  • cúltír noun (land immediately next to a coast)

Italian

2 entries
  • hinterland noun (rural territory surrounding urban area)
  • retroterra noun (land immediately next to a coast)

Lower Sorbian

1 entries
  • nutśikowny kraj noun (land immediately next to a coast)

Macedonian

4 entries
  • задгр́бнина noun (land immediately next to a coast)
  • задгр́бнина noun (remote or undeveloped area)
  • предгра́дие noun (rural territory surrounding urban area)
  • пусте́лија noun (remote or undeveloped area)

Polish

4 entries
  • prowincja noun (rural territory surrounding urban area)
  • prowincja noun (remote or undeveloped area)
  • wnętrze lądu noun (land immediately next to a coast)
  • zaścianek noun (remote or undeveloped area)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • sertão noun (remote or undeveloped area)

Russian

4 entries
  • глуби́нка noun (remote or undeveloped area)
  • глушь noun (remote or undeveloped area)
  • захолу́стье noun (remote or undeveloped area)
  • пригород noun (rural territory surrounding urban area)

Serbo-Croatian

1 entries
  • zaleđe noun (land immediately next to a coast)

Sranan Tongo

1 entries
  • tapusei noun (land immediately next to a coast)

Swedish

2 entries
  • avkrok noun (remote or undeveloped area)
  • inland noun (land immediately next to a coast)

Turkish

2 entries
  • hinterlant noun (land immediately next to a coast)
  • iç bölge noun (land immediately next to a coast)

Welsh

1 entries
  • cefnwlad noun (land immediately next to a coast)

Sample sentences

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The enterprise of an already distant past had brought every land under civilization. The Sahara was a lake district, crowded with sun-proud holiday resorts. The arctic islands of Canada, ingeniously warmed by directed tropical currents, were the homes of vigorous northerners. The coasts of Antarctica, thawed in the same manner, were permanently inhabited by those engaged in exploiting the mineral wealth of the hinterland.

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

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Looking through family photographs at his home in Leeds, England, Gordon Bonner, 86, said he was lost in a “hinterland of despair and desolation.”

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In West Wales it has never been possible until recently to exploit the magnificent natural harbour of Milford Haven, for there was no industrial hinterland.

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