terra incognita
/ɪnˈkɒɡnɪtə
/ /ˌɪnkɒɡˈniːtə/noun [mass noun]
Unknown or unexplored territory: the traveller is moving now through terra incognita figurative one actor’s familiar world is another’s terra incognita...
- The Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland were terra incognita to almost all Englishmen, and most Lowland Scots.
- When Thomas Jefferson sent young Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and the Corps of Discovery to survey the lands beyond the Mississippi, the West was terra incognita.
- Hence, large tracts of the North-Central Norwegian Caledonides are practically terra incognita with respect to late- to post-orogenic structural development.
Origin
Latin, 'unknown land'.
Rhymes
- jobbism
- jobble
- job book
- job buyer
- job case
- jobcentre
- job club
- job control language
- Job Corps
- job counseling
- job counselling
- job creation
- job creation scheme
- job description
- job discrimination
- job displacement
- job enlargement
- job enrichment
- job evaluation
- job fair
- job font
- job fount
- job holder
- job-hop
- job hopper