borderland

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: bor=der=land

OXFORD DICTIONARY

borderland, n.
1 the district near a border.
2 an intermediate condition between two extremes.
3 an area for debate.

THESAURUS

borderland

Berlin wall, Pillars of Hercules, alentours, ambience, ambit, arena, back country, backwoods, bailiwick, bamboo curtain, beat, boondock, boondocks, border, border ground, borderlands, brush, bush country, bushveld, circle, circuit, circumambiencies, circumjacencies, circumstances, compass, context, demesne, department, domain, dominion, entourage, environing circumstances, environment, environs, field, forests, frontier, frontier post, gestalt, habitat, hemisphere, hinterland, iron curtain, judicial circuit, jurisdiction, march, marches, marchland, milieu, neighborhood, orb, orbit, outback, outpost, outposts, outskirts, pale, perimeter, periphery, precinct, precincts, province, purlieus, realm, round, situation, sphere, suburbs, surroundings, the bush, three-mile limit, timbers, total environment, twelve-mile limit, uninhabited region, up-country, vicinage, vicinity, virgin land, virgin territory, walk, wasteland, wild West, wilderness, wilds, woodlands, woods

ROGET THESAURUS

borderland

Nearness

N nearness, proximity, propinquity, vicinity, vicinage, neighborhood, adjacency, contiguity, short distance, short step, short cut, earshot, close quarters, stone's throw, bow shot, gun shot, pistol shot, hair's breadth, span, purlieus, neighborhood, vicinage, environs, alentours, suburbs, confines, banlieue, borderland, whereabouts, bystander, neighbor, borderer, approach, convergence, perihelion, near, nigh, close at hand, near at hand, close, neighboring, bordering upon, contiguous, adjacent, adjoining, proximate, proximal, at hand, handy, near the mark, near run, home, intimate, near, nigh, hard by, fast by, close to, close upon, hard upon, at the point of, next door to, within reach, within call, within hearing, within earshot, within an ace of, but a step, not far from, at no great distance, on the verge of, on the brink of, on the skirts of, in the environs, at one's door, at one's feet, at one's elbow, at one's finger's end, at one's side, on the tip of one's tongue, under one's nose, within a stone's throw, in sight of, in presence of, at close quarters, cheek by jole, cheek by jowl, beside, alongside, side by side, tete-a-tete, in juxtaposition, yardarm to yardarm, at the heels of, on the confines of, at the threshold, bordering upon, verging to, in the way, about, hereabouts, thereabouts, roughly, in round numbers, approximately, approximatively, as good as, well-nigh.

Contiguity

N contiguity, contact, proximity, apposition, abuttal, juxtaposition, abutment, osculation, meeting, appulse, rencontre, rencounter, syzygy, coincidence, coexistence, adhesion, touching, (touch), borderland, frontier, tangent, abutter, contiguous, touching, in contact, conterminous, end to end, osculatory, pertingent, tangential, hand to hand, close to, with no interval.