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# borderland

«borderland» in Mova's school dictionary: **The land near a border between two countries or regions** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a borderland, borderlands)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The land near a border between two countries or regions. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/borderland/#m1)

2) A state or area between two things that is not clearly one or the other. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/borderland/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In history and geography, borderlands such as the Scottish Borders were places of raids and battles. In stories, a borderland is wild and dangerous. As an idea: «the borderland between sleep and waking».

### examples

- Raiders crossed the borderlands between England and Scotland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/borderland/#x1)
- The borderland was full of castles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/borderland/#x2)
- The village lies in the borderland between two countries. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/borderland/#x3)
- Dreams happen in the borderland between sleep and waking. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/borderland/#x4)
- Many languages are spoken in the borderlands. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/borderland/#x5)
- The road is dangerous even near here, and this is not yet the borderland of the Caucasus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/borderland/#x6)

### note

Often plural: the borderlands. Similar: frontier, border region.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «borderland» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/borderland/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.