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Plural of heartland

regular plural

The plural of heartland is heartlands.

Forms of heartland

Singularheartland /ˈhɑːtlənd/
Pluralheartlands
Countablecountable

Heartlands in a sentence

  • Israel intercepted a missile fired by Hezbollah near Tel Aviv on Wednesday, an unprecedented attack by the militant group that reached deep into the country’s commercial heartlands and marked a new escalatory step in the conflict between the two sides.2024 September 25, Irene Nasser, Dana Karni, Helen Regan, Sophie Tanno, “Israel intercepts Hezbollah ballistic missile near Tel Aviv in...
  • Take heart, small-time shopkeepers in the heartlands.2001 March 16, Alfred Dass, Today, Singapore: Mediacorp Press, →OCLC, page 8
  • After our stop, we return to Ulceby, where we reverse and then head to the industrial heartlands of Immingham Docks and a visit to the Bulk terminal.2022 December 14, Pip Dunn, “Caroline is ready for inspection...”, in RAIL, number 972, page 53. From the entry here, there and everywhere

Meaning of heartland

  1. noun Synonym of heart (“the seat of the affections or love”).
  2. noun The interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant.
  3. noun In the geopolitical theory of the English geographer Halford John Mackinder (1861–1947): the interior of the world island comprising north-central Eurasia regarded as politically powerful.

Full definition of heartland

Questions about the plural of heartland

What is the plural of heartland?
The plural of heartland is heartlands.
Is heartland countable?
Heartland is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: heartland (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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