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Definition of Outland
1. a. Foreign; outlandish.
Definition of Outland
1. Adjective. Provincial: from a province (of the same land). ¹
2. Adjective. Foreign: from abroad, from a foreign land. ¹
3. Adjective. (context: used with ethnic nationalities) Living abroad, living in a foreign land. ¹
4. Noun. (context: especially in the plural) Any outlying area of a country; the provinces. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Outland
1. a foreign land [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outland
Literary usage of Outland
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chronicles of the City of Perugia, 1492-1503 by Francesco Maturanzio, Edward Strachan Morgan (1905)
"at-arms ready for war the outland soldiery kept at a distance from the walls.
... But his plan came to naught, and the outland Duke was not even strong ..."
2. Songs of the Outlands: Ballads of the Hoboes and Other Verse by Henry Herbert Knibbs (1914)
"... THE outland TRAILS MY head grew gray on the outland trails where I stood a
man with men; And now I whine like a hungry whelp to go out on the trails ..."
3. Camp-fire Verse by Joseph Le Roy Harrison (1917)
"THE outland TRAILS My head grew gray on the outland trails where I stood a man
with men; And now I whine like a hungry whelp to go out on the trails again. ..."
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