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hinterland
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
hinterland \hin"ter*land`\, n. [G.; hinter behind + land land.] a remote and undeveloped area; originally, the land or region lying behind the coast district. The term is used esp. with reference to the so-called
doctrine of the hinterland, sometimes advanced, that occupation of the coast supports a claim to an exclusive right to occupy, from time to time, the territory lying inland of the coast.
Syn: backwoods, back country, boondocks.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 The land immediately next to, and inland from, a coast. 2 The rural territory surrounding an urban area, especially a port. 3 A remote or undeveloped area, a backwater. 4 (context figuratively English) That which is unknown or unexplored about someone. 5 (context figuratively English) Anything vague or ill-defined, ''especially'' one that is ill understood.
WordNet
n. a remote and undeveloped area [syn: backwoods, back country, boondocks]
Wikipedia
Hinterland is a German word meaning "the land behind" (a city, a port, or similar). The term's use in English was first documented by geographer George Chisholm in his Handbook of Commercial Geography (1888).
Hinterland was the second album released by the musician / DJ, Aim, released in 2002. Much like its predecessor, Cold Water Music, the album was well received by critics. It spent one week in the UK album charts, at number 47, and remains Aim's only charting album.
Hinterland is a Canadian indie pop band from Vancouver. Hinterland's music is best described as dream pop/ shoegazing/ new wave with soaring, ethereal vocals, and is currently released by Submerged Records. Hinterland's second album The Picture Plane (released February 2006) spent three months in the Canadian college radio top 50. Hinterland's debut album Under the Waterline won the band several Georgia Straight Music Awards, including best local album, best vocalist, and most underrated band. Hinterland has been featured on MuchMusic and CBC Television's ZeD.
Hinterland has shared the stage with artists such as Monade, the Album Leaf, Brendan Benson, Silversun Pickups, The Hermit, Paper Moon, and A Northern Chorus, and has performed across Canada, hitting cities such as Victoria, Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Winnipeg, and Toronto.
Two of the members who wrote and performed on Under the Waterline and The Picture Plane are no longer with the band. Kyle Fogden left before the latter album was released, to be replaced by Greg Williams. Cameron McLellan left the band in the summer of 2006; his spot was filled by Robb Johannes.
Hinterland's third album Pan Pan Medico was released in February 2008.
In 2008, Hinterland members John Lucas and Michaela Galloway started a new project called The Hope Slide. The duo released a self-titled album in 2010, and are currently working on an album to be released in 2014.
Hinterland is a term that originated from the German preposition "hinter" meaning "the land behind", and which has extended to include additional geographic meanings as well as to mean "scope of knowledge".
Hinterland or Hinterlands may also refer to:
Hinterland is a high fantasy role-playing video game with city-building elements by Tilted Mill Entertainment. It was released on September 30, 2008 on the Steam content delivery system, and has since been made available at other digital distribution websites. Hinterland: Orc Lords, a cumulative expansion, was released to digital distribution and retail in March 2009. As the title suggests, the primary addition to the game was the ability to play as Orc characters.
Hinterland is the second studio album by Manchester solo artist Julie Campbell, known as Lonelady, released in 2015 by Warp.
Hinterland is a feature film written, directed, produced and starring Harry Macqueen. The film was released in UK to critical acclaim on 27 February 2015. It was nominated Best UK Feature at Raindance Film Festival 2014 and Best Debut at the Beijing Film Festival 2015. It was released by Soda Pictures.
Hinterland starred Harry Macqueen and Lori Campbell. It was released in UK cinemas on 27 February 2015 to critical acclaim. The Telegraph called it 'A transporting debut'., The Guardian 'delicate and affecting', and 'a powerful and courageous masterpiece' by ALT Magazine. Sight and Sound described the film as 'so evocative…filmgoers who like their love stories wistful would be well advised to seek it out'. Mike McCahill wrote 'the film’s sincerity and elegance of expression are unquestionable. This work of quiet assurance deserves entry to that select group of 21st century films – Jamie Thraves’ The Low Down, Alex Barrett’s Life Just Is, perhaps Col Spector’s Honeymooner, too – that come close to nailing the way modern British twentysomethings talk, think, feel and muddle through' Movie Mail
It was the UK's first carbon-neutral feature film.
Usage examples of "hinterland".
He was sure only Byar knew why he had leaped to accept this command, aimed at an all-but-forgotten district in the hinterlands of Andor, and Byar would hold his tongue.
Much has changed since Julius Caesar and his legions swept through the hinterlands of Gaul four hundred years ago, bringing fire and devastation to hundreds of barbarian villages and towns, killing and enslaving a million men, entirely effacing from history and existence countless tribes and their distinguishing characteristics.
The cash-crop latifundia of its hinterland brought in money, not food, or at most brought variety to the diet.
Poor Fred, sufficient to inspire pilgrimages to these hinterlands by culture mavens from all over the 2 GENEROUS DEATH world.
Drake had seen the scene often enough without wanting to play a part in it: dusky coconut culture serves as exotic backdrop for Anglo fantasies of global gaming and sexual derring-do under the rule that out in the non-Christian hinterlands there are no rules, no one is what he seems, and the congenial Welsh twosome you meet over rijsttafel in a restaurant whose wall murals depict a subtle range of lovemaking are, in actuality, ruthless agents of a foreign power who have selected you and your beautiful wife to play unwilling but critical roles in their horrid terrorist scheme.
The contraband was invariably sold deep in the hinterlands, where dreams soured within weeks when it became clear just how tough it was to survive outside the enclosed comfort of an arcology, and nobody was going to question where sophisticated power hardware and medical packages came from.
I should not be surprised to learn that the prescientific idea of stones falling from the sky is not, in these hinterlands, completely dead.
Eastern Hinterlands of Vandescard to the contrary, he had only fought one real duel, and his winning had been more of a fluke than due to any great skill, but there was something frightening about the calmly professional way Doc Sherve stuck his gloved hands and his shiny metal instruments right into a wound, clamping here, sewing there.
Traditional products of the Croatian karst hinterland -- livestock, leather, agricultural produce -- were exchanged for the artifacts of more developed societies -- jewellery, knives, Carolingian swords.
There had been deaths, of course, to footholds lost, to viruses and bacteria of the hinterland, and to the depredations of the inland predators, animals that unfolded in claws, teeth, cirri, and killed.
In the hinterlands, where the farms were miles apart and the houselights went out early, you could look up on almost any clear night and see all the stars you wanted.
All of Franconia, not just the parts included in the SoTF, but also Bayreuth, Ansbach, and the Nuernberg hinterland.
In fact, mainly Bayreuth, Ansbach, and the Nuernberg hinterland, since the majority of those inside Wuerzburg, Bamberg, and Fulda were Catholic.
Once it had been established that these aberrants were no more fertile than anyone else interest in them waned rapidly and soon appeared to have died out altogether except in such odd and discredited corners of the scientific hinterland as the transcendental establishment run by Angus McHarty.
The governor of Further Spain controlled all the south and west of the country from a base in the fabulously fertile hinterlands of the Baetis River, with the mighty old Phoenician city of Gades near its mouth.