noun
Meaning 1
Synonym of heart (“the seat of the affections or love”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: heart
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
heartland
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈhɑːtlənd/
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Received-Pronunciation: /-lænd/
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General-American: härtʹ-lənd
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General-American: /ˈhɑɹtlənd/
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General-American: /-ˌlænd/
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CMU ARPABET: HH AA1 R T L AE2 N D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
Also in the plural form heartlands:
The interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
Also in the plural form heartlands:
In the geopolitical theory of the English geographer Halford John Mackinder (1861–1947): the interior of the world island comprising north-central Eurasia regarded as politically powerful.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: specifically
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
Also in the plural form heartlands:
Residential districts and planning areas outside the city centre; the new towns of Singapore collectively.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Singapore, in-plural, specifically
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
Also in the plural form heartlands:
The states in the centre of the United States, chiefly regarded as politically and socially conservative; also, the people living in such states collectively.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, attributive, often, specifically
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Middle America
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
Also in the plural form heartlands:
A region or part of a region particularly associated with or significant for a characteristic, such as an activity, a faith, support for a political party or other organization, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The home counties are the Conservative heartland.
- We stayed in the heartland of the French wine-growing regions.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
the central region of a country or continent; especially a region that is important to a country or to a culture
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: region
History
Etymology
From heart (“(figuratively) centre, core, essence”) + land.
Across languages
Translations
30 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Azerbaijani: ocaq — interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant
- Chinese Mandarin: 心臟地帶 /心脏地带 (xīnzàngdìdài) — interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant
- Dutch: centrum — interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant
- Dutch: kern — interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant
- Dzongkha: གཞུང (gzhung) — interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant
- Finnish: rintamaa — interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant
- Finnish: sydänmaa — interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant
- Finnish: ydinalue — interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant
- French: centre — interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant
- German: Kerngebiet — interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant
- German: Kernland — interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant
- Irish: croíthailte — interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant
- Macedonian: сре́дишен дел (srédišen del) — interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant
- Māori: manowhenua — interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant
- Portuguese: coração — interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant
- Spanish: corazón — interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant
- Spanish: núcleo — interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant
- Swedish: hjärta — interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant
- Swedish: kärnland — interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant
- Swedish: kärnområde — interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant
- Ukrainian: осере́ддя (oseréddja) — interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant
- Welsh: perfedd — interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant
- Welsh: perfeddwlad — interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant
- Finnish: Euroopan sydänmaat — interior of the world island comprising north-central Eurasia regarded as politically powerful
- Chinese Mandarin: 鄰里社区 (línlǐ shèqū) — (Singapore) residential districts outside the city centre
- Finnish: keskustan ulkopuoliset alueet — (Singapore) residential districts outside the city centre
- Finnish: Yhdysvaltain sydänmaat — states in the centre of the United States, chiefly regarded as politically and socially conservative; people living in such states collectively
- Finnish: sydänmaa — region or part of a region particularly associated with or significant for a characteristic
- Finnish: ydinalue — region or part of a region particularly associated with or significant for a characteristic
- German: Hochburg — region or part of a region particularly associated with or significant for a characteristic
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