outland

Meanings

Adjective

• Provincial: from a province (of the same land).
• Foreign: from abroad, from a foreign land.
• Living abroad, living in a foreign land, expatriate.

Noun

• Any outlying area of a country; the provinces.

Verb

• To land more (punches, kicks etc.) than.

Related

Similar words

• expatriate

Broader meaning words

• land

Origin

• From Middle English outland, outlond, from Old English ūtland, from Proto-Germanic *ūtlandą, 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).
• out- + land