Meaning of Heartland | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Synonym of heart (“the seat of the affections or love”).
2. Also in the plural form heartlands:
3. The interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant.
4. In the geopolitical theory of the English geographer Halford John Mackinder (1861–1947): the interior of the world island comprising north-central Eurasia regarded as politically powerful.
   specifically
5. Residential districts and planning areas outside the city centre; the new towns of Singapore collectively.
   Singapore, in-plural, specifically
6. The states in the centre of the United States, chiefly regarded as politically and socially conservative; also, the people living in such states collectively.
   US, attributive, often, specifically
7. A region or part of a region particularly associated with or significant for a characteristic, such as an activity, a faith, support for a political party or other organization, etc.

Equivalents

Examples

“[R]ound the Pole all three powers lay claim to enormous territories which in fact are largely uninhabited and unexplored: but the balance of power always remains roughly even, and the territory which forms the heartland of each super-state always remains inviolate.”

“Israel intercepted a missile fired by Hezbollah near Tel Aviv on Wednesday, an unprecedented attack by the militant group that reached deep into the country’s commercial heartlands and marked a new escalatory step in the conflict between the two sides.”

“Those in the HDB [Housing and Development Board] heartland will be able to vote in the airconditioned comfort of their community centres […]”

“Take heart, small-time shopkeepers in the heartlands.”

“I applaud the organising committee's decision to hold the concert in the heartlands.”

“The home counties are the Conservative heartland.”

“We stayed in the heartland of the French wine-growing regions.”

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