different between hinterland vs surrounds

English

Alternative forms

• hinderland (dated)

Etymology

Borrowed from German Hinterland, from hinter (“behind”) +? Land (“land”), cognate to English hinder (“back, rear”) + land. First used in English in 1888 by George Chisholm in his work Handbook of Commercial Geography originally as hinderland, but the current spelling (following German) became more popular. The term is characteristic of a thalassocratic analysis of space (from the point of view of a nation, such as 19th-century Britain, with maritime supremacy).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?nt?(?)?lænd/

Noun

hinterland (countable and uncountable, plural hinterlands)

1. The land immediately next to, and inland from, a coast.
2. The rural territory surrounding an urban area, especially a port.
3. A remote or undeveloped area, a backwater.
4. (figuratively) That which is unknown or unexplored about someone.
5. (figuratively) Anything vague or ill-defined, especially something that is ill understood.
   • abstract of 2007, Lesley Jeffries, Textual Construction of the Female Body:

     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: Thesaurus:remote place
• (the) sticks

Translations

See also

• foreland

References

• “hinterland”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Dutch

Etymology

From German Hinterland.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???nt?rl?nt/

Noun

hinterland n (plural hinterlanden, diminutive hinterlandje n)

1. hinterland (rural territory, backwater)

Synonyms

• achterland

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Hinterland.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?in.ter.land/
• Hyphenation: hìn?ter?land

Noun

hinterland m (invariable)

1. hinterland, interior

English

Noun

surrounds pl (plural only)

1. Things bordering, adjacent to, or near something else; surroundings.

   It was an informative guide to the city and surrounds.

Synonyms

• environs
• hinterland

Verb

surrounds

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of surround