BORDERLAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does borderland mean? 

• BORDERLAND (noun)
  The noun BORDERLAND has 1 sense:

1. district consisting of the area on either side of a border or boundary of a country or an area

  Familiarity information: BORDERLAND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BORDERLAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

District consisting of the area on either side of a border or boundary of a country or an area

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

border district; borderland; march; marchland

Context example:

the Welsh marches between England and Wales

Hypernyms ("borderland" is a kind of...):

district; dominion; territorial dominion; territory (a region marked off for administrative or other purposes)

 Context examples 

There are scant crops and few beeves in the borderland, where a man must reap his grain with sickle in one fist and brown bill in the other.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Lower Burke Street proved to be a line of fine houses lying in the vague borderland between Notting Hill and Kensington.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)