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dimecres, 19 de gener del 2011

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hinterland |ˈhintərˌland|
(also hinterlands)

noun
• the often uncharted areas beyond a coastal district or a river's banks : early settlers were driven from the coastal areas into the hinterland.
• an area surrounding a town or port and served by it : the city had grown prosperous by exploiting its local western hinterland.
• the remote areas of a region : the mountain hinterland.
• (figurative) an area lying beyond what is visible or known : in the hinterland of his mind these things rose, dark and ominous.
ORIGIN late 19th cent.: from German, from hinter ‘behind’ + Land ‘land.’

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dimecres, 19 de gener del 2011

Erasmus