No Man's Land Definition

noun
The unoccupied region separating opposing armies.
Webster's New World
A piece of land, usually wasteland, to which no one has a recognized title.
Webster's New World
An area of uncertainty or ambiguity.
American Heritage
An indefinite area of operation, involvement, jurisdiction, etc.
Webster's New World
(military) The ground between trenches where a soldier from either side would be easily targeted.
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Origin of No Man's Land

  • A dispatch printed in the Times newspaper by Colonel E. Swinton writing as "Eyewitness"

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No Man's Land Sentence Examples

  • For many centuries this district between London and Westminster was a kind of " no man's land " having certain archaic customs. Gomme in his Governance of London (1907) gives an account of the connexion of this with the old village of Aldwich, a name that survived in Wych Street, and has been revived by the London County Council in Aldwych, the crescent which leads to Kingsway.

  • The population of the entire country, which includes the Elizabeth Islands, north-west of Martha's Vineyard; Chappaquiddick Island (Edgartown township), and No Man's Land (a small island south-west of Martha's Vineyard), was 4561 in 1900 (of whom 645 were foreign-born, including 79 Portuguese and 72 English-Canadians, and 154 Indians), and in 1905, 455 1.

  • Like the terrain around the Upas tree No Man's Land was scourged, swept incessantly by fire and lethal poisons.

  • He played a few uncredited roles in Less Than Zero, and Now Way Out, No Man's Land.

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