Outland
/ˈaʊt.lænd/noun
A region or place outside one’s own country or territory; foreign lands.
Did you know?In Old English, the same root behind *outland* also gave us words for what is “outside” or “beyond,” so the word originally marked a boundary between the familiar world and the strange one beyond it.
Etymological Timeline
Old English
OE
ūtlond
“land outside one’s own country or district”
Middle English
ME
outlond
“foreign land; land beyond one's own”
14th Century
English
outland
“foreign country or distant region”
Modern English
English
outland
“a remote or foreign place; used especially in literary or archaic style”