Definition of "foreland" [fore•land]

• A projecting land mass; a promontory. (noun)

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• "S.W. side of Prince of Wales's Foreland, another inlet into Royal Sound; and it then appeared, that the foreland was the E. point of a large island lying in the mouth of it."
• "And this is the furthest place that this yeere we haue entred vp within the streits, and is reckoned from the Cape of the Queenes foreland, which is the entrance of the streites not aboue 30 leagues."
• "Sasol Petroleum International (SPI) has obtained a 51 percent working interest in four hydrocarbon prospecting licences covering a land area of 37,000 square kilometres, close to established gas fields in the "foreland" area of Papua New Guinea."