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heart·land (härt′land′)
noun
Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Preposition: of
- capitalism: The heartlands of industrial capitalism have, of course, many differences with Indonesia.
Possessives
- nation: An inland chunk first stop the nation's heartland usually were on.
Adjective modifier
- imperialist: I think you are right about ' left ' advisers in the imperialist heartlands telling anti-imperialists how to conduct their struggles.
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.
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.
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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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