Niemandsland

From niemand (“nobody”) +‎ -s- +‎ Land (“land”).

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Niemandsland n (strong, genitive Niemandslandes or Niemandslands, no plural)

1. no man's land
   • 1924, Kurt Tucholsky, Vor Verdun, in: Die Weltbühne, volume 20, no. 32, Verlag der Weltbühne, page 219:

     Hier war das Niemandsland: drüben auf der Höhe lagen die Deutschen, hüben die Franzosen – dies war unbesetzt.

     Here was the no man's land, over there on the height were the Germans, over here the French – this was unoccupied.

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• “Niemandsland” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Niemandsland” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Niemandsland” in Duden online
• “Niemandsland” in OpenThesaurus.de
• Niemandsland on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de