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‖ hinterland|ˈhɪntəlænd|
[a. Ger. hinterland, f. hinter- behind + land land.]
1. The district behind that lying along the coast (or along the shore of a river); the ‘back country’. Also applied spec. to the area lying behind a port, and to the fringe areas of a town or city.
1890Spectator 19 July, The delimitation of the Hinterland behind Tunis and Algiers. 1891Daily News 12 June 5/2 Lord Salisbury even recognises..the very modern doctrine of the Hinterland, which he expounds as meaning that ‘those who possess the coast also possess the plain which is watered by the rivers that run to the coast’. 1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 408 The inhabitants of the shores and hinterland of Corisco Bay are..savages. a1910in L. D. Stamp Gloss. Geogr. Terms (1961) 235 Hinderland, Hinterland, the region the seaborne trade of which belongs to a particular seaport or seaboard. 1922Geogr. Rev. Apr. 260 The main factor which determined the selection of ports in prehistoric times was the presence of a populous hinterland of effective buyers. 1936E. Van Cleef Trade Centers & Trade Routes iii. 34 The immediately contiguous territory within the continuous hinterland which in some instances contributes to the formation of the metropolitan city has been termed by the Germans, the ‘Umland’ or country about. 1938A. J. Sargent Seaports & Hinterlands 3 A port, essentially, is a transit area, a gateway through which goods and people move from and to the sea, by way of rail, inland waterway, or sometimes by road. The region to and from which this movement is directed is commonly and somewhat vaguely described as the hinterland. 1945E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited 7 Here the close, homogeneous territory of housing estates and cinemas ended and the hinterland began. 1950Geogr. Jrnl. CXVI. 64 The approximate boundaries of urban spheres of influence or hinterlands. 1968Guardian 23 Oct. 9 As Clydeside developed industrially so it attracted labour from its own hinterland and from famine-stricken Ireland.
2. fig. and transf.
1919M. K. Bradby Psycho-Analysis (1920) 75 Un⁓explored territories full of mystery and danger in the hinterland of their own minds. Ibid. 251 The individual who is introduced to the ‘hinterland’ of his own conscious being. a1930D. H. Lawrence Last Poems (1932) 182 We are mostly unexplored hinterland. 1965New Statesman 23 Apr. 646/3 The council meets in that dour ecclesiastical hinterland of Westminster Abbey, where you can buy a second-hand cassock.
3. Geol. (See quot. 1961.)
1937Wooldridge & Morgan Physical Basis Geogr. vi. 76 The African ‘hinterland’ is believed to have moved northward towards the European ‘foreland’. 1961J. Challinor Dict. Geol. 100/2 Hinterland, the moving block which compresses the sediments of a geosyncline and forces them towards the foreland. |