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heartland Definition

heart·land (härtland′)

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.

—Shultz, George P(ratt)

Browse dictionary entries near heartland

  1. heartiness
  2. heartily
  3. hearthstone
  4. hearthside
  5. hearth
  6. heartfelt
  7. hearten
  8. -hearted
  9. heartburn
  10. heartbroken
  1. heartless
  2. heartsease
  3. heartsick
  4. heartsome
  5. heartstrings
  6. heartthrob
  7. heartwarming
  8. heartwood
  9. heartworm
  10. hearty