borderland

noun bor·der·land \ ˈbȯr-dər-ˌland \

|Updated on: 22 Jul 2018

Examples: borderland in a Sentence

Definition of borderland

1 a : territory at or near a border

b : fringe 3a

lives on the borderland of society

2 : a vague intermediate state or region

the borderland between fantasy and reality

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Examples of borderland in a Sentence

in the borderland between sleeping and waking
He describes adolescence as the tumultuous borderlands between childhood and adulthood.

Recent Examples of borderland from the Web

Director Roman Bondarchuk's surreal black comedy takes place in the visually striking borderlands of southern Ukraine.

— stephen dalton, The Hollywood Reporter, "'Volcano': Film Review | Karlovy Vary 2018," 13 July 2018
Subsequently, all eyes turned to the once lawless western borderland with Afghanistan.

— hollie mckay, Fox News, "Trump's wrath forces Pakistan to double down on push to eliminate terrorist sanctuaries," 10 July 2018
The wars also fueled worries about smugglers running guns into Mexico, refugees fleeing to the United States and international espionage in the borderlands.

— rachel st. john, Smithsonian, "The Raging Controversy at the Border Began With This Incident 100 Years Ago," 26 June 2018
In the borderlands of Nigeria, school attendance for girls is as much an act of war against Boko Haram as picking up a gun.

— mark sappenfield, The Christian Science Monitor, "Nigeria’s schoolgirl rebellion," 26 June 2018
In March and April, real estate transactions in the city of Paju, which includes borderlands, jumped to about three times the average level from the last decade, according to the most recent figures released last week by KB Financial Group.

— victoria kim, latimes.com, "An unexpected consequence of the thaw between the two Koreas: a budding real estate boom along the DMZ," 20 June 2018
The whistle of a stiff and constant wind cuts through a silence that gives no hint of the hostilities, both physical and political, that animate these borderlands.

— steven levy, WIRED, "Inside Palmer Luckey’s Bid to Build A Border Wall," 11 June 2018
The residents of this borderland have an unusually high level of concern about climate change.

— scott waldman, Scientific American, "Precarious Life of Texas Farmworkers Becomes Riskier With Warming," 23 Apr. 2018
The United Nations refugee agency has appealed for protection for the borderland Rohingya.

— Washington Post, "Rohingya living in ‘no man’s land’ insist they will stay," 10 Mar. 2018

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First Known Use of borderland

1811

in the meaning defined at sense 1a

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borderland Synonyms

Synonyms

border, frontier, march;

Related Words

no-man's-land;

BORDERLAND Defined for English Language Learners

borderland

noun

Definition of borderland for English Language Learners

: the land on either side of a border between countries
: an unclear state or condition that is between two things and is like each of them in some ways