Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An unknown land; an unexplored region.
- noun A new or unexplored field of knowledge.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- An unknown land; unexplored country.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Land that has never beenexplored ormapped ;uncharted territory . - noun By extension,
ideas orconcepts that have not yet been tried or explored.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an unknown and unexplored region
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[New Latin : Latin terra, land + Latin incognita, feminine of incognitus, unknown.]
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Latin: terra, land; incognita, unknown.
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