heartland
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- noun
- /ˈhɑrtˌlænd/
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región central
- Right you are, and out there in the heartland of America, every little guy knows exactly what you mean.
- heartland of the country
- industrial heartland
- American heartland
This city in the heartland of the South, it's one huge big railroad center.
- This city in the heartland of the South, it's one huge big railroad center.
- Two weeks from now, smokestacks will still belch in industrial heartlands.
- And I, I can see how the American Dream is function functioning because I've been in the heartland of America.
- The BJP's losses in its Hindi speaking northern political heartland costed the seats needed for an outright majority.
- So the move is away from the Arab heartland to a place where the population is not necessarily Arab.
- The fact is we've never ignored the heartland of the US, but we have not trumpeted it the way that that we might have done.
- But I'm, and, you know, This is why I'm saying the, the heartland needs to not be afraid to talk about these things for fear they're going to offend somebody.
- And those same ones, that same heartlands there is that's where ISIS was born.
- Now sing Drought in the heartland, death in the Multiplex, Rough in the heart.
Examples
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This city in the heartland of the South, it's one huge big railroad center.
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The Shankadi region was the heartland of the Luba kingdom at its height during the 17th-19th centuries.
Academic text (1998) -
We'll be right back with more Cops, live from the heartland.
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There is a place in the heartland of the United States that is home to the most severe storms on earth.
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This is the heartland of electronic production in the United States, which accounts for what - 80% of the world microchip market.
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Here in America's heartland, Sunday was the proper day for special ceremonies, they said.
Fiction book (1997) -
And now we continue our ongoing coverage of the opioid epidemic ravaging the heartland of America.
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Hindus are spread across the heartland, with Muslims concentrated in northwest and northeast wings.
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His religious pilgrimage began in horrendous personal circumstances in the heartland of the so-called American Bible Belt.
Academic text (1996) -
Wisconsin is the picture of the heartland of America and is home to the most dairy farms in the country.
Synonyms
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2.7
A north central part of the United States with many farms and small towns
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2.7
A north-central part of the United States known for farms and rivers
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3.2
A region in the north-central United States that includes states like Ohio and Illinois
A central part of a country or region often seen as a separate area
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Etymology
Heartland comes from heart ('the body's center' or 'the most important part') and land ('area'). So heartland means the central area of a country — its 'heart' — and that is why we call a nation's most important region its heartland.