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adj
Provincial: from a province (of the same land).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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adj
Foreign: from abroad, from a foreign land.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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adj
Living abroad, living in a foreign land, expatriate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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noun
Any outlying area of a country; the provinces.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: especially, in-plural
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verb
To land more (punches, kicks etc.) than.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: government, hobbies, lifestyle, martial-arts, military, politics, sports, war
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History
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).
From out- + land.
