outland

American  

[out-land, out-land, -luhnd] / ˈaʊtˌlænd, ˈaʊtˌlænd, -lənd /

noun

1. Usually outlands. the outlying districts or remote regions of a country; provinces.

   a name unknown in the outlands.

2. (formerly) the outlying land of a feudal estate, usually granted to tenants.

3. a foreign land.

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adjective

1. outlying, as districts.

2. foreign.

outland British  

adjective

1. outlying or distant

2. archaic foreign; alien

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noun

1. (usually plural) the outlying areas of a country or region

Etymology

Origin of outland

before 950; Middle English; Old English ūtland. See out-, land

Example Sentences

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

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

Being driven to frenzy by the futility of outland interpretation, I at last took up the work of their defense.

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

Related Words

• agrarian
• agricultural
• backwoods
• bucolic
• idyllic
• pastoral
• provincial
• rustic