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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
hinterland
n : a remote and undeveloped area [syn: backwoods, back
country, boondocks]
WordNet (r) 2.0
85 Moby Thesaurus words for "hinterland":
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
back country, backwoods, boondocks
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