Definition of "borderland" [borderland]

• Land located on or near a frontier. (noun)
• The fringe: a shadowy figure who lived on the borderland of the drug scene. (noun)
• An indeterminate area, situation, or condition: the borderland between sanity and insanity. (noun)

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• "There is also a link to the university's Institute for Oral History (utminers. utep.edu/panihm/oralhist. htm), which sounds fascinating for anyone interested in borderland history."
• "Like many historians, the author prefers the word borderland to frontier because it connotes a place of instability, a place of conflict among several sources of power."
• "Even in the previous century the parapsychological faculties of the human brain had belonged to the questionable field of the so-called borderland sciences."