Definitions for "Foreland"
A piece of ground between the wall of a place and the moat.
The ground immediately ahead of a mountain range which has yet to be involved in the orogeny (or perhaps it never will/was). A current foreland area are the plains of the river Ganges, ahead of the Himalayas in India, or that part of Europe northwestwards of the Alps. The area behind mountain ranges is called the hinterland (which of course means we need to know which "way" the mountains are going).
An area of rock which is undeformed during an episode of mountain-building.
That portion of the natural shore on the outside of the embankment which receives the stock of waves and deadens their force.
a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)
A promontory or cape; a headland; as, the North and South Foreland in Kent, England.
Backshore area formed by the deposition of sediment which is no longer part of an active coastal process system