OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 35048

no man's land

/ˈnoʊˌmænzˌlænd/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
tierra de nadie
A place where no one can or should be present.
There’s a 137-square-mile chunk of Franklin County […] referred to as "no man’s land" because it isn’t protected by any of the county’s four fire districts.
Today Qingshan district is a patchwork of tiny fields, polluted streams and roadside markets selling building materials. But the city government is in the process of transforming t…
tierra de nadie
Territory that is often disputed, and that cannot be inhabited because of fear of conflict, especially:
At the last Polish station all train officials left, except the locomotive crew, and we slowly trundled over a strongly fortified no man's land for a few hundred yards until we dre…
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