Backwoods

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • noun-plural. Heavily wooded, uncultivated, thinly settled areas.
  • noun-plural. An area that is far from population centers or that is held to be culturally backward.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Partly or wholly uncleared forest, especially in North America.
  • n. A remote or sparsely inhabited region, especially in North America; away from big towns and from the influence of modern life.
  • adj. Pertaining to the backwoods.
  • adj. Rough, uncouth, coarse, or crude in social matters.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun-plural. The forests or partly cleared grounds on the frontiers.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Wooded or partially uncleared and unsettled districts in the remote parts of a new country; hence, in the United States and Canada, any rough or thinly settled region far from the centers of population.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a remote and undeveloped area
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    rural area    country   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    backwood   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Woods    goods    hoods    woods   
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