outland

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Definition of outland

5 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Provincial: from a province (of the same land).
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adj

  1. (not-comparable)Provincial: from a province (of the same land).
  2. (not-comparable)Foreign: from abroad, from a foreign land.
    “These outland Romans will not kill us all If you permit them to do their governing, Which is so dear to them, over you and us.”
    “I heard strange pipes when I was young, / Piping songs of an outland tongue.”
  3. (not-comparable)Living abroad, living in a foreign land, expatriate.
    “Whatever dependence the Pan-German chauvinist had placed on outland Germans proved to be a broken reed.”
    “When the "outland Danes," who live in other countries, return by the thousand for the summer festivals, they gather first in the grim 13th-century fortress of Kronborg, [...]”
    “To China, it is "Chinese territory under British administration" : its citizens are regarded as "home Chinese," not "outland Chinese," and can travel freely to the mother country.”
    “And Bruno's name is "Bienenfeld" meaning that I would place him as what are in Cleveland anyway called "Donau Schwaben" i.e., outland Germans living in SE Europe [...]”

noun

  1. (especially, in-plural)Any outlying area of a country; the provinces.

verb

  1. To land more (punches, kicks etc.) than.

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Etymology

From Middle English outland, outlond, from Old English ūtland (“foreign land, land abroad”), from Proto-Germanic *ūtlandą (“outland”), equivalent to out- + land. Cognate to Dutch uitland, Afrikaans uitland, German Ausland,…

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From Middle English outland, outlond, from Old English ūtland (“foreign land, land abroad”), from Proto-Germanic *ūtlandą (“outland”), equivalent to out- + land. Cognate to Dutch uitland, Afrikaans uitland, German Ausland, Danish udland. The use in the phrase "outland German" is influenced by (or is a calque of) the German cognate of the same meaning, Auslandsdeutsche (see Ausland). The use in the phrase "outland Chinese" is influenced by (or is a calque of) the Chinese term of the same meaning, 華僑 / 华侨 (huáqiáo).

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