heartland
heartland
Definition
heart·land (härt′land′)
noun
a geographically central area having crucial economic, political, or strategic importance
heartland
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- capitalism: The heartlands of industrial capitalism have, of course, many differences with Indonesia.
- country: The north, the ancient heartland of the country, was closed off.
- clan: It is the heartland of the Scottish clans and it was here that the Jacobite cause lingered longest and with greatest force.
Possessives
- nation: An inland chunk first stop the nation's heartland usually were on.
- country: The Lithuanian language is related mainly to Latvian and has been spoken since time immemorial in the Country's heartlands.
- party: Labor's by-election record is formidable so the loss of the seat in the party's Scottish heartland almost beggared belief.
Adjective modifier
- imperialist: I think you are right about ' left ' advisers in the imperialist heartlands telling anti-imperialists how to conduct their struggles.
- Gaelic: This is particularly so in parts of Scotland outside the Gaelic heartland.
- industrial: A view across the industrial heartland from Hopes Carr.
- rural: Its route through Ayrshire from the south enters from the dramatic Galloway Forest into the rural heartland of Ayrshire.
- agricultural: It is an historic village in the agricultural heartland of North West Norfolk.
- traditional: In the rural areas of North East Scotland, the SNP's traditional heartland, the nationalists lost ground.
Modifies a noun
- seat: Labor voters are less likely to turn out than Tories, and the lowest turnout of all is expected in the Labor heartland seats.
- home: The hunger my care health heartland home hospice cover revenge. getting into heard.
- care: And heartland home health care and hospice houston it be it.
- health: And heartland home health care and hospice houston it be it.
- area: We now need measures that lift the life chances of the people of our heartland areas, which remain the poorest parts of Wales.
- hospice: The hunger my care health heartland home hospice cover revenge. getting into heard.
Noun used with modifier
- manufacturing: The manufacturing heartlands might well have done better in the eurozone than in the pound zone over the past few years.
- health: The hunger my care health heartland home hospice cover revenge. getting into heard.
heartland Quotes
You can't figure him out like a fact, because to Reagan themainfact was avision He came fromtheheartland of the country, where people could be down-to-earth yet feel that the sky is the limitönot ashamed of, or cynical about, the American dream.
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