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borderland
/ˈbɔː(ɹ).də(ɹ)ˌlænd/
noun 2
Collocations
2ADJ.
wild
VERB + BORDERLAND
edge
Definitions
noun
1
Land near a border; marches.
retaining Liddesdale and his other Borderlands and Offices in his owne person
1850, Charlotte Brontë, letter dated 16 March, 1850, in The Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell, London: Smith, Elder, 1857, Volume 2, Chapter , p. , some of the ancient East Lancashire families, whose mansions lie on the hilly border-land between the two counties
2
An intermediate state, category, etc.
Near-synonyms: twilight zone, shadowland
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 no border-land with him. You cannot hover with him upon the confines of truth, or wander in the maze of a probable argument.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — district consisting of the area on either side of a border o
- march
- marchland
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
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retaining Liddesdale and his other Borderlands and Offices in his owne person
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1850, Charlotte Brontë, letter dated 16 March, 1850, in The Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell, London: Smith, Elder, 1857, Volume 2, Chapter , p. , some of the ancient East Lancashire fami
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They came to the river that marked the very edge of the borderland of the Wild […]
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