Meaning

Provincial: from a province (of the same land)..

Definitions by Sense

1. Provincial: from a province (of the same land).
2. Foreign: from abroad, from a foreign land.
3. (used with ethnic nationalities) Living abroad, living in a foreign land, expatriate.
4. (especially in the plural) Any outlying area of a country; the provinces.
5. (martial arts) To land more (punches, kicks etc.) than.

Example Sentences

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.

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

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

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, [...]

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.

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 [...]

Word Forms

• outlands
• outlanding
• outlanded

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