Outland
Origin
From Old English Å«tland ("foreign land, land abroad"), equivalent to out + land. Use in the phrase "outland German" is influenced by (or is a calque of) the German cognate of the same meaning, Auslandsdeutsche (see Ausland). Use in the phrase "outland Chinese" is influenced by (or is a calque of) the Chinese term of the same meaning, è¯åƒ‘
åŽä¾¨ (huáqiáo).
Full definition of outland
Adjective
outland
- Provincial: from a province (of the same land).
- Foreign: from abroad, from a foreign land.
- 1921, Gordon Bottomley, Gruach and Britain's daughter: two plays, page 74:These outland Romans will not kill us all If you permit them to do their governing, Which is so dear to them, over you and us.
- 1966, Donald Davidson, Poems, 1922-1961, page 107:I heard strange pipes when I was young,
Piping songs of an outland tongue. - (used with ethnic nationalities) Living abroad, living in a foreign land, expatriate.
- 1919, William Milligan Sloane, The powers and aims of western democracy, page 402:Whatever dependence the Pan-German chauvinist had placed on outland Germans proved to be a broken reed.
- 1949, The Reader's Digest, volume 54, page 101:When the "outland Danes," who live in other countries, return by the thousand for the summer festivals, they gather first in the grim 13th-century fortress of Kronborg, ...
- 1980, New Society, volume 51, page 546:To China, it is "Chinese territory under British administration" : its citizens are regarded as "home Chinese," not "outland Chinese," and can travel freely to the mother country.
- 2001 June 12, "Mike Echo Mike" (username), "Why do I fly !!!", in rec.aviation.student
- And Bruno's name is "Bienenfeld" meaning that I would place him as what are in Cleveland anyway called "Donau Schwaben" i.e., outland Germans living in SE Europe ...
Synonyms
- (living abroad) expatriate