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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | back country |
| Synonyms: | backwoods, boonies, bush, country, hinterland, sticks |
| Main Entry: | country |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rural area; area away from city |
| Synonyms: | back country, backwoods, boondocks, boonies, bush, countryside, cow country, farmland, farms, forests, green belt, hinterland, middle of nowhere, outback, outdoors, province, sticks, up country, wide open space, wilderness, wilds, woodlands, woods |
| Notes: | country really refers to geographical characteristics while nation refers to political and social characteristics; country comes from Latin contrata (terra) 'the landscape in front of one, the landscape lying opposite to the view' and nation is from Latin nation-/natio 'race, class of person' a nation is made up of states - and a country is a nation defined geographically |
| Antonyms: | city, metropolis, urbanity |
| Main Entry: | frontier |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unexplored, unoccupied area of land |
| Synonyms: | backcountry, backwater, backwoods, boondocks, boonies, bush, hinterland, outback, outskirts, sticks, unknown* |
| Antonyms: | metropolis |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hinterland |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | backcountry |
| Synonyms: | boondocks, boonies, borderland, brush, bush country, frontier, outback, sticks, wasteland, wilderness, woods |
| Main Entry: | remote |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | out-of-the-way; in the distance |
| Synonyms: | alien, back, backwoods, beyond, boondocks, devious, distant, far, far-flung, far-off, faraway, foreign, frontier, god-knows-where, godforsaken, in a backwater, inaccessible, isolated, lonely, lonesome, middle of nowhere, obscure, off the beaten path, off-lying, outlandish, outlying, private, removed, retired, secluded, secret, undiscovered, unknown, unsettled, wild |
| Antonyms: | close, convenient, near, nearby |
| Main Entry: | town |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | incorporated community |
| Synonyms: | apple, boondocks, borough, burg, city, hamlet, metropolis, municipality, seat, sticks, township, whistle-stop |
| Notes: | city first was used for any settlement regardless of size; the modern distinction between town and city developed during the 14th century |
| Main Entry: | backcountry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rural area |
| Synonyms: | boondocks, boonies, bush, farm, hinterlands, sticks |
| Main Entry: | wilderness/wilds |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | uninhabited area |
| Synonyms: | back country, back of beyond, badland, barrens, boondocks, bush, desert, forest, hinterland, jungle, middle of nowhere, outback, primeval forest, sticks, waste, wasteland, wild |
| Antonyms: | city, metropolis |
| Main Entry: | inland |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | interior |
| Synonyms: | back-country, backland, boondocks, central, heartland, hinterland, inward, midland, provincial, upcountry |
| Antonyms: | border, coastal, frontier |
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