terra incognita
/ɪnˈkɒɡnɪtə
/ /ˌɪnkɒɡˈniːtə/noun [mass noun]
Unknown or unexplored territory: the traveller is moving now through terra incognita figurative one actor’s familiar world is another’s terra incognita...
- The Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland were terra incognita to almost all Englishmen, and most Lowland Scots.
- When Thomas Jefferson sent young Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and the Corps of Discovery to survey the lands beyond the Mississippi, the West was terra incognita.
- Hence, large tracts of the North-Central Norwegian Caledonides are practically terra incognita with respect to late- to post-orogenic structural development.
Origin
Latin, 'unknown land'.
Rhymes
- sound engineer
- sound engineering
- sounder
- Soundex
- soundhole
- sounding
- sounding board
- sounding line
- sounding rod
- soundless
- soundlessly
- soundlessness
- soundly
- soundness
- sound off
- sound post
- sound pressure
- soundproof
- soundscape
- sound shift
- sounds like a plan
- sound spectrograph
- sound stage
- sound symbolism
- sound system