backlands

noun

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plural of backland
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a rural region that forms the edge of the settled or developed part of a country they purposely vacationed in the backlands to get away from people

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for backlands
  1. countryside
  2. bush
  3. hinterland
  4. country
  5. backwater
  6. frontier
  7. outback
Noun
  • Otherwise, there is not a great deal for miles around other than fields and countryside, cattle and birdsong and the occasional row of thatched cottages.
    — Daniel Taylor, The Athletic, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Radwan Alo fled his home in the countryside outside Qardaha, the hometown of the Assad family, and crossed the river into Lebanon.
    — Hogir Abdo, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2025
Definition of countryside
Noun
  • For example, summer offers bushes for hiding, while winter’s snow will crunch under your feet, potentially alerting enemies.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
  • It’s abandoned now and has fallen into disrepair, with broken slats on the wood steps and prickly bushes growing over the front porch.
    — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 4 Mar. 2025
Definition of bush
Noun
  • Celebrity can be as alluring as royalty to someone who grew up eating gruel in the hinterlands, though such concepts must be imparted somehow.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 16 Feb. 2025
  • From obscurity to fame Pandas once roamed a vast swath of China, along with parts of northern Myanmar and Vietnam, but human encroachment and climate change shrank the habitat of the bamboo-munching bears to just six mountain ranges above the Sichuan basin, deep in China’s hinterland.
    — Nectar Gan, CNN, 26 Jan. 2025
Definition of hinterland
Noun
  • Both countries are isolated by sanctions imposed by the West.
    — Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Trump has long believed that the U.S. trade deficit is an indication that Americans are getting ripped off by other countries.
    — Chad P. Bown, Foreign Affairs, 11 Mar. 2025
Definition of country
Noun
  • The slow, tranquil sojourn along the lower Mekong River, cruising through rural Cambodia and Vietnam’s backwaters, felt more like being on a 19th-century yacht than a modern cruise liner.
    — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 11 Mar. 2025
  • These comprehensive trails span both Baldwin and Mobile counties, following the coastline, wetlands, and backwaters—all crucial stopover habitats for migratory birds.
    — Catherine Jessee, Southern Living, 8 Mar. 2025
Definition of backwater
Noun
  • While most automakers have relegated AI to safety-system technology in current models, Mercedes' use of AI in the cabin is a new frontier for the North American market, especially for a vehicle on the lower end of a company's lineup.
    — Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Death in a hail of bullets has been used to punish mutinies and desertion in armies, as frontier justice in America’s Old West, and as a tool of terror and political repression in the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.
    — Jeffrey Collins, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2025
Definition of frontier
Noun
  • Finding escaped marsupials in the vast Australian outback may sound much harder than finding a needle in a haystack.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Take the story of the longest living trapdoor spider, who survived in the Australian outback to the ripe age of 43.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
Definition of outback
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