rimlandn.
/ˈrɪmland/, /ˈrɪmlənd/, U.S. /ˈrɪmˌlænd/ Land situated at the rim or edge of something, esp. when considered as having political or strategic significance; an area of such land (chiefly in plural).
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > part of country or district > [noun] > border district(s)
end-landc1175
marcha1325
bounds1340
coast1377
marcherc1475
border1489
marchland1536
confines1548
front1589
limitrophe1589
commark1612
land-march1614
frontier1676
Border-sidea1700
borderland1813
border-countryc1885
rimland1942
1942 N. J. Spykman America's Strategy World Polit. v. 154 The blueprint for the future is a sketch of Japanese hegemony over the Western Pacific rimland from Siberia to Tasmania.
1944 N. J. Spykman Geogr. of Peace iv. 38/1 The central continental plain can continue to be called the heartland but..it is..to be equated with the political extent of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Beyond the mountain barrier, the coastland region..may..be referred to as the rimland, a name which defines its character accurately.
1975 R. Gilpin U.S. Power & Multinational Corporation iv. 104 The United States emerged from the war as the dominant influence in the so-called rimlands of Eurasia, Western Europe, and Japan.
1990 B. R. Allanson et al. Inland Waters Southern Afr. ii. 9 The coastal rimland of the southern subcontinent has been subject to successive elevations and subsequent coastal abrasion.
2004 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 10 June 18/1 A half-dozen independent ‘khanates’ are separate players along the rimlands.
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1944 N. J. Spykman Geogr. of Peace iv. 43/2 In the three great world wars of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries,..the British and Russian empires have lined up together against an intervening rimland power as led by Napoleon, Wilhelm II, and Hitler.
1982 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 18 June 22 The Soviet Union might also be less enthusiastic about outmaneuvering the PRC [= People's Republic of China] in Indochina, Korea, India, Afghanistan, and other Asian rimland nations.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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