单词 | no man's land |
释义 | no man's landnounan area between opposing armies, over which no control has been established. an unowned or unclaimed tract of usually barren land. an indefinite or ambiguous area where guidelines and authority are not clear: a no man's land between acceptance and rejection. (in tennis, handball, etc.) the area of a court in which a player is at a tactical disadvantage, as the area of a tennis court about midway between the net and the base line. Origin of no man's landMiddle English word dating back to 1300–50 Words nearby no man's landnomadic, nomadism, nomadize, No man can serve two masters, No man is an island, no man's land, nomarch, nomarchy, no-mark, no-mates, no matter Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for no man's landno-man's-land nounland between boundaries, esp an unoccupied zone between opposing forces an unowned or unclaimed piece of land an ambiguous area of activity or thought Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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