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Etymology

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Fromborder +‎land.

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Noun

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borderland (pluralborderlands)

  1. Land near aborder;marches.
    Synonym:marchland
    Hypernyms:land;area;region;place;location
    Coordinate terms:edgeland;hinterland
    • 1644,David Hume,The History of the Houses of Douglas and Angus‎[1], Edinburgh: Evan Tyler, page81:
      retainingLiddesdale and his otherBorderlands and Offices in his owne person
    • 1850,Charlotte Brontë, letter dated 16 March, 1850, inThe Life of Charlotte Brontë byElizabeth Gaskell, London: Smith, Elder, 1857, Volume 2, Chapter , p. ,[2]
      some of the ancient East Lancashire families, whose mansions lie on the hillyborder-land between the two counties
    • 1937,J. R. R. Tolkien, chapter 19, inThe Hobbit‎[3], New York: Ballantine Books, published1966, page282:
      They came to the river that marked the very edge of theborderland of the Wild[…]
    • 2012,Hilary Mantel,Bring Up the Bodies‎[4], New York: Henry Holt, Part 1, Chapter 2, p. 68:
      […] he pieces together his tale: arson, cattle raids, the usualborderlands story, ending in destitution, the making of orphans.
  2. (figuratively) Anintermediatestate,category, etc.
    Synonym:grey area
    Near-synonyms:twilight zone,shadowland
    • 1821 August,Charles Lamb, “Jews, Quakers, Scotchmen, and Other Imperfect Sympathies”, inThe London Magazine, volume 4, page153:
      Is he [the Scotchman] orthodox—he has no doubts. Is he an infidel—he has none either. Between the affirmative and the negative there is noborder-land with him. You cannot hover with him upon the confines of truth, or wander in the maze of a probable argument.
    • 1911,W. E. B. Du Bois, chapter 25, inThe Quest of the Silver Fleece‎[5], Chicago: McClurg, page277:
      “Mr. Alwyn, the line between virtue and foolishness is dim and wavering, and I should hate to see you lost in that marshyborderland.[…]”
    • 1937,Virginia Woolf,The Years‎[6], New York: Harcourt, Brace, page21:
      But she did not look as if she were dying; she looked as if she might go on existing in thisborderland between life and death for ever.
    • 1955,Rachel Carson, chapter 2, inThe Edge of the Sea‎[7], Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page36:
      the subject lies in the mistyborderlands of advancing knowledge
    • 2019,Robert Harris, chapter 12, inThe Second Sleep, London: Hutchinson:
      […] he found himself in that frustrating mental state in which one is too exhausted to think productively and yet too alert to sleep, and in this restlessborderland he lay for the remainder of the night[…]

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Translations

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land near a border

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