foreland

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a piece of land projecting into the sea; a headland or promontory

   The lighthouse stood on a rocky foreland above the bay.

2. 2
   noun

   in geology, the relatively stable region lying in front of a mountain belt

   Sediment accumulated in the foreland as the neighboring mountains rose.

From Middle English foreland, a compound of fore- ("in front") + land. It first named land lying ahead or projecting outward; geology later applied it to the stable terrain in front of a developing mountain chain.

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