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heartland|ˈhɑːtlænd|
[f. heart n. 17 + land n.]
A (usually extensive) central region of homogeneous (geographical, political, industrial, etc.) character. Also transf.
1904H. J. MacKinder in Geogr. Jrnl. XXIII. 434 But trans-continental railways are now transmuting the conditions of land-power, and nowhere can they have such effect as in the closed heart-land of Euro-Asia, in vast areas of which neither timber nor accessible stone was available for road-making. 1919― Democratic Ideals & Reality 96 Taken together, the regions of Arctic and Continental drainage measure nearly a half of Asia and a quarter of Europe, and form a great continuous patch in the north and centre of the continent..inaccessible to navigation from the ocean... Let us call this great region the Heartland of the Continent. 1947Landfall I. 298 We are in the frontier West, the heartland of the American myth. 1949‘G. Orwell’ Nineteen Eighty-Four ii. 189 The territory which forms the heartland of each super⁓state always remains inviolate. 1959A. J. Toynbee Hellenism 2 The matrix of the Indo-European languages, somewhere in the heartland of the Old World. 1966New Statesman 13 May 674/3 Mr Heath..is right to make the attempt even if it means some ill-feeling in the Conservative heartlands. 1968Powell & Wallis House of Lords in Middle Ages viii. 123 King John planned a concerted attack on the French heartland from east and west. 1972Observer 30 July 9/8 Chobham Farm container depot and Midland Cold Storage nestling within a few hundred yards of each other, lie at the very heartland of British trade unionism. |