Hinterland
['hɪntəlænd] or ['hɪntɚlænd]
Definition
n. the district behind that lying along the coast or along a river.
Typed by Bush
Examples
- Let no one suppose that the unwillingness to cultivate what Mr. Wells calls the mental hinterland is a vice peculiar to the business man. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- That hinterland affects daily life, and the church which cannot get a leverage on it by any other method than entering into immediate political controversy is simply a church that is dead. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- A few Socialists were in office set to govern a city with no Socialist hinterland. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Its genuine influence is on what Wells calls the hinterland, in a quickening of the sense of life. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Typist: Wesley