outland

[ noun out-land; adjective out-land, -luh nd ]

/ noun ˈaʊtˌlænd; adjective ˈaʊtˌlænd, -lənd /

Usually outlands. the outlying districts or remote regions of a country; provinces: a name unknown in the outlands.

(formerly) the outlying land of a feudal estate, usually granted to tenants.

a foreign land.

outlying, as districts.

foreign.

Origin of outland

before 950; Middle English; Old English ūtland. See out-, land

There has been no such Vice in Outland for many a long year, as he would be!

Sylvie and Bruno |Lewis Carroll
Many were said to be the outland coins in his leather bag in his room at the southerly end of the house.

Ulric the Jarl |William O. Stoddard
"Outland stranger who is under the Wrath of Lurgha," the other mocked him in the voice of Cassca.

The Time Traders |Andre Norton
Out yonder on the sea lies the ship of my son, the Prince, who has sailed for Outland to bring home a bride.

The Flower Princess |Abbie Farwell Brown

Outland, owt′land, n. land beyond the limits of cultivation.

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) |Various

outland

outlying or distant

archaic foreign; alien

(usually plural) the outlying areas of a country or region