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Hinterland vs Iland - What's the difference?

hinterland | iland |

As nouns the difference between hinterland and iland

is that hinterland is hinterland while iland is (label).

hinterland

English

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.

    Synonyms

    * See: * (the) sticks

    See also

    * foreland

    References

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    iland

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label)
  • *1790 , Tobias George Smollett, The Critical review, or, Annals of literature :
    • This vast iland seems to have been first peopled by Fins and Laplanders, whom Ihre thinks the first inhabitants of the whole.
  • *1858 , Thomas Wright, La mort d'Arthure :
    • [...] and there came against him king Marsill, that had in gift an iland' of sir Galahalt the haute prince, and this ' iland had the name Pomitaine.

    References

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