borderland
noun
1 borderland
District consisting of the area on either side of a border or boundary of a country or an area.
synonyms: border district, march, marchland.
Roget 197:
nearness
etc.
adj.;
proximity,
propinquity;
vicinity,
vicinage;
neighborhood,
adjacency;
contiguity
etc.
199.
short distance,
short step,
short cut;
earshot,
close quarters,
stone's throw;
bow shot,
gun shot,
pistol shot;
hair's breadth,
span.
purlieus,
neighborhood,
vicinage,
environs,
alentours [Fr.],
suburbs,
confines,
banlieue†,
borderland;
whereabouts.
bystander;
neighbor,
borderer†.
approach
etc.
286;
convergence
etc.
290;
perihelion.
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Roget 199:
contiguity,
contact,
proximity,
apposition,
abuttal†,
juxtaposition;
abutment,
osculation;
meeting,
appulse†,
rencontre†,
rencounter†,
syzygy [Astr.],
coincidence,
coexistence;
adhesion
etc.
46;
touching
etc.
v..
(touch)
379.
borderland;
frontier
etc.
(limit)
233;
tangent;
abutter.
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Dutch: grensgebied, randgebied
Polish: margrabstwo, marchia
Moby thesaurus: Berlin wall, Pillars of Hercules, alentours, ambience, ambit, arena, back country, backwoods, bailiwick, bamboo curtain, beat, boondock, boondocks, border, border ground, borderlands, brush, bush country, bushveld, circle, circuit, circumambiencies, circumjacencies, circumstances, compass, context, demesne, department, domain, dominion, entourage, environing circumstances, environment, environs, field, forests, frontier, frontier post, gestalt, habitat, hemisphere, hinterland, iron curtain, judicial circuit, jurisdiction, march, marches, marchland, milieu, neighborhood, orb, orbit, outback, outpost, outposts, outskirts, pale, perimeter, periphery, precinct, precincts, province, purlieus, realm, round, situation, sphere, suburbs, surroundings, the bush, three-mile limit, timbers, total environment, twelve-mile limit, uninhabited region, up-country, vicinage, vicinity, virgin land, virgin territory, walk, wasteland, wild West, wilderness, wilds, woodlands, woods ... show more.
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