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Definition of Foreland
1. Noun. A natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea).
Specialized synonyms: Cape Horn, Calpe, Gibraltar, Rock Of Gibraltar, Cape Hatteras, Cape Canaveral, Cape Kennedy, Cape Sable, Abila, Abyla, Jebel Musa
Specialized synonyms: Mull, Point
Generic synonyms: Elevation, Natural Elevation
2. Noun. Land forming the forward margin of something.
Definition of Foreland
1. n. A promontory or cape; a headland; as, the North and South Foreland in Kent, England.
Definition of Foreland
1. Noun. A headland. ¹
2. Noun. (geology) In plate tectonics, the zone adjacent to a mountain chain where material eroded from it is deposited. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Foreland
1. a projecting mass of land [n -S]
Medical Definition of Foreland
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1. A promontory or cape; a headland; as, the North and South Foreland in Kent, England.
2. A piece of ground between the wall of a place and the moat.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Foreland
Literary usage of Foreland
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Face of the Earth: (Das Antlitz Der Erde) by Edward Suess (1904)
"Relation of the Alpine system to its foreland. The earthquakes which are propagated
from the northern border of tl Alps to the granite mountains of Bohemia ..."
2. Report on the Geology of Cornwall, Devon and West Somerset by Henry Thomas De La Beche (1839)
"From the latter headland to Fremington, much of the section requires to be treated
as that from the foreland to Bull Point. Although such a section does not ..."
3. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1853)
"ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH, SOUTH foreland TO BELGIUM. NOTICE TO MARINERS. ... that the
Sub-marine Cable, extending from the South foreland to Belgium, ..."
4. Amid Snowy Wastes: Wild Life on the Spitsbergen Archipelago by Seton Paul Gordon (1922)
"As early as 1612 the name Prince Charles foreland was given to it, after the son
of James the Sixth of Scotland. Full open as it is to the influence of the ..."
5. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1898)
"... coast of Swedish foreland, we stood in and landed on Cape Weissenfels, ...
foreland. A long sandy slope, on which are patches of MOU or gras«, ..."
6. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1910)
"These occur on Jökull Bay and on the north shore of the North East foreland (see
Fig. 24).29 The Ice Face or Front.—Concerning the form of the front of the ..."
7. Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1833)
"Some Observations on the Peculiarity of the Tides between Fairleigh and the North
foreland; with an Explanation of the supposed Meeting of the Tides near ..."
8. No Man's Land: A History of Spitsbergen from Its Discovery in 1596 to the by William Martin Conway (1906)
"The true Black point was the south cape of the foreland. Further north and still
on the west shore of the foreland, the Dutch maps from Goos' (1620) ..."
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