1. disputed ground between the front lines or trenches of two opposing armies: "enemy soldiers facing you across no man's land"
▪ an indeterminate or undefined place or state: "the no man's land between the two parties is where presidential contests are won and lost"
▪ a piece of unowned land or wasteland:"between Riverside Drive and Central Park West was a no man's land, a zone of welfare tenements"
Word OriginMiddle English: originally the name of a plot of ground lying outside the north wall of the city of London, the site of a place of execution.