Associations to the word «Heartland»

Wiktionary

HEARTLAND, noun. The central part of a region defined by geographical or non-geographical criteria.
HEARTLAND, noun. The part of a region considered essential to the viability and survival of the whole.

Dictionary definition

HEARTLAND, noun. The central region of a country or continent; especially a region that is important to a country or to a culture.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope