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Webster 1913 Edition
Outland
1.
Foreign; outlandish.
[Obs.]
Strutt.
Webster 1828 Edition
Outland
OUT'LAND
,Adj.
Definition 2024
outland
outland
English
Adjective
outland (not comparable)
- Provincial: from a province (of the same land).
- Foreign: from abroad, from a foreign land.
- 1921, Gordon Bottomley, Gruach and Britain's daughter: two plays, page 74:
- 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.
- 1966, Donald Davidson, Poems, 1922-1961, page 107:
- I heard strange pipes when I was young, / Piping songs of an outland tongue.
- 1921, Gordon Bottomley, Gruach and Britain's daughter: two plays, page 74:
- (used with ethnic nationalities) Living abroad, living in a foreign land, expatriate.
- 1919, William Milligan Sloane, The powers and aims of western democracy, page 402:
- Whatever dependence the Pan-German chauvinist had placed on outland Germans proved to be a broken reed.
- 1949, The Reader's Digest, volume 54, page 101:
- 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, [...]
- 1980, New Society, volume 51, page 546:
- 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.
- 2001 June 12, "Mike Echo Mike" (username), "Why do I fly !!!", in rec.aviation.student, Usenet:
- 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 [...]
- 1919, William Milligan Sloane, The powers and aims of western democracy, page 402:
Quotations
- 1905, Edward Strachen Morgan (translator), Chronicles of the city of Perugia 1492-1503 (original by Francesco Matarazzo), page 198:
- But his plan came to naught, and the outland Duke was not even strong enough to bring back Piero dei Medici from his exile into Florence.
Synonyms
- (living abroad): expatriate
Noun
outland (plural outlands)
Hypernyms
- (structural) land