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outland

adjective

  1. Provincial: from a province (of the same land).

  2. Foreign: from abroad, from a foreign land.

    These outland Romans will not kill us all If you permit them to do their governing, Which is so dear to them, over you and us.

  3. Living abroad, living in a foreign land, expatriate.

    Whatever dependence the Pan-German chauvinist had placed on outland Germans proved to be a broken reed.

Where it comes from

From Middle English outland, outlond, from Old English ūtland (“foreign land, land abroad”), from Proto-Germanic *ūtlandą (“outland”), equivalent to out- + land. Cognate to Dutch uitland, Afrikaans uitland, German Ausland, Danish udland. The use in the phrase "outland German" is influenced by (or is a calque of) the German cognate of the same meaning, Auslandsdeutsche (see Ausland). The use in the phrase "outland Chinese" is influenced by (or is a calque of) the Chinese term of the same meaning, 華僑 / 华侨 (huáqiáo).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry outland (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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