HEARTLAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does heartland mean? 

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

1. the central region of a country or continent; especially a region that is important to a country or to a culture

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEARTLAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The central region of a country or continent; especially a region that is important to a country or to a culture

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

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

region (a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth)