outland
/ˈaʊtlˌænd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.27 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Provincial: from a province (of the same land).
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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 [...]"
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, 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).