Noun

(en noun)

A yard to the rear of a house or similar residence.

(colloquial) A person's neighborhood, or an area nearby to a person's usual residence or place of work and where the person is likely to go.

* {{quote-book, year=2005

, author=Christopher Kennedy Lawford , title=Symptoms of withdrawal: a memoir of snapshots and redemption , page=18 citation , isbn=0060732482, 9780060732486 , passage=The entire beach was my backyard , from the Hiltons' house in the south all the way to Steele Hunter's house in the north.}}

(colloquial) An area nearby to a country or other jurisidiction's legal boundaries, particularly an area in which the country feels it has an interest.

* {{quote-book, year=1942

, year_published= , author=Wilfrid Hardy Callcott , title=The Caribbean policy of the United States, 1890-1920 , page=343 citation , passage=However, the region was in the United States backyard and Britain should look passively on with acquiescence in whatever policy the United States saw fit to pursue about Mexico.}}

Noun

(wikipedia hinterland) (en noun)

The land immediately next to, and inland from, a coast.

The rural territory surrounding an urban area, especially a port.

A remote or undeveloped area, a backwater.

(figuratively) That which is unknown or unexplored about someone.

(figuratively) Anything vague or ill-defined, especially one that is ill understood.

* 2007 , Lesley Jeffries, Textual Construction of the Female Body , abstract

This approach utilizes concepts such as naming, describing, contrasting and equating to access the hinterland between structure and meaning, and to map out the subtle ways in which texts can naturalise the ideology of the perfect female form.