Usually means: Core, culturally significant region of country.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word heartland:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. heartland: Merriam-Webster
  2. heartland, the heartland: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. heartland: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. heartland: Collins English Dictionary
  5. heartland: Vocabulary.com
  6. Heartland, heartland: Wordnik
  7. heartland: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. heartland: Wiktionary
  9. heartland: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. heartland: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. heartland: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. heartland: Dictionary.com
  13. heartland: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Heartland (Australian TV series), Heartland (Canadian TV series), Heartland (George Strait song), Heartland (Michael Stanley Band album), Heartland (New Zealand TV series), Heartland (Owen Pallett album), Heartland (Real Life album), Heartland (Runrig album), Heartland (Shiau novel), Heartland (TNT), Heartland (TV network), Heartland (TV series), Heartland (The Judds album), Heartland (U2 song), Heartland (United States), Heartland (band), Heartland (comics), Heartland (country music band), Heartland (disambiguation), Heartland (film), Heartland (nonfiction book), Heartland (novel series), Heartland (video game), Heartland: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. heartland: Rhymezone
  16. heartland: FreeDictionary.org
  17. heartland: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. heartland: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. heartland: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. The heartland, heartland: Encyclopedia

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  1. heartland: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Synonym of heart (“the seat of the affections or love”)
noun:  Also in the plural form heartlands:
noun:  The interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant.
noun:  (specifically) In the geopolitical theory of the English geographer Halford John Mackinder (1861–1947): the interior of the world island comprising north-central Eurasia regarded as politically powerful.
noun:  (specifically, Singapore, chiefly in the plural) Residential districts and planning areas outside the city centre; the new towns of Singapore collectively.
noun:  (specifically, US, often attributively) The states in the centre of the United States, chiefly regarded as politically and socially conservative; also, the people living in such states collectively.
noun:  A region or part of a region particularly associated with or significant for a characteristic, such as an activity, a faith, support for a political party or other organization, etc.

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