'hinterland' definitions:
Definition of 'hinterland'
From: WordNet
noun
Definition of 'hinterland'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [Webster 1913 Suppl. + WordNet 1.5]
Synonyms of 'hinterland'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- airspace,
- area,
- arena,
- back,
- back country,
- backcountry,
- backdrop,
- background,
- backwash,
- backwater,
- backwoods,
- belt,
- boondock,
- boondocks,
- borderland,
- brush,
- bush,
- bush country,
- bushveld,
- confines,
- continental shelf,
- corridor,
- country,
- department,
- distance,
- district,
- division,
- environs,
- field,
- forests,
- frontier,
- ground,
- heartland,
- inland,
- inlands,
- interior,
- land,
- locale,
- midland,
- midlands,
- milieu,
- mise-en-scene,
- neighborhood,
- offshore rights,
- outback,
- outpost,
- part,
- parts,
- place,
- precincts,
- premises,
- purlieus,
- quarter,
- rear,
- region,
- salient,
- scene,
- section,
- setting,
- soil,
- space,
- stage,
- stage set,
- stage setting,
- sticks,
- terrain,
- territory,
- the bush,
- theater,
- three-mile limit,
- timbers,
- twelve-mile limit,
- uninhabited region,
- up-country,
- vicinage,
- vicinity,
- virgin land,
- virgin territory,
- wasteland,
- wild West,
- wilderness,
- wilds,
- woodlands,
- woods,
- zone