outland

1. not comparableProvincial: from a province (of the same land).
2. not comparableForeign: from abroad, from a foreign land.

   I heard strange pipes when I was young, / Piping songs of an outland tongue.

   1966, Donald Davidson, Poems, 1922-1961, page 107

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   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.

   1921, Gordon Bottomley, Gruach and Britain's daughter: two plays, page 74

3. not comparableLiving abroad, living in a foreign land, expatriate.

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

   1919, William Milligan Sloane, The powers and aims of western democracy, page 402

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   When the "outland Danes," who live in other countries, return by the thousand for the summer festivals, they gather first in the grim 13th-century fortress of Kronborg, [...]

   1949, The Reader's Digest, volume 54, page 101

   To China, it is "Chinese territory under British administration" : its citizens are regarded as "home Chinese," not "outland Chinese," and can travel freely to the mother country.

   1980, New Society, volume 51, page 546

   And Bruno's name is "Bienenfeld" meaning that I would place him as what are in Cleveland anyway called "Donau Schwaben" i.e., outland Germans living in SE Europe [...]

   2001 June 12, Mike Echo Mike, “Why do I fly !!!”, in rec.aviation.student (Usenet)

   Synonyms: expatriate

plural outlands

1. especiallyin pluralAny outlying area of a country; the provinces.

present singular third person outlands · participle present outlanding · participle past outlanded · past outlanded

1. governmentTo land more (punches, kicks etc.) than.