outland
Americanadjective
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outlying or distant
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archaic foreign; alien
noun
Etymology
Origin of outland
before 950; Middle English; Old English ūtland. See out-, land
Example Sentences
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However, within this cinematic outland, there are more than a few diamonds in the rough.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 24, 2018
“This is occurring more frequently, where homes are right in the outland and urban interface,” said Cal Fire spokesman Gabe Lauderdale.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2018
Being driven to frenzy by the futility of outland interpretation, I at last took up the work of their defense.
From Time Magazine Archive
Canadian Author Germaine Guevremont has used him and his outland ways simply to point up the careful, ordered provincial life of a countryside she describes with affectionate fidelity.
From Time Magazine Archive
He still kept his outland accent in defiance of the mere English, but he had ceased to think in Gaelic.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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