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

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne