noun
- 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.
adjective
- outlying, as districts.
- foreign.
adjective (ˈaʊtˌlænd, -lənd)
- outlying or distant
- archaic foreign; alien
noun (ˈaʊtˌlænd)
- (usually plural) the outlying areas of a country or region