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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | backcountry |
| Synonyms: | boondocks, boonies, borderland, brush, bush country, frontier, outback, sticks, wasteland, wilderness, woods |
| Main Entry: | bush |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shrubs; woodland |
| Synonyms: | backcountry, backwoods, boscage, bramble, briar, brush, chaparral, creeper, forest, hedge, hinterland, jungle, outback, plant, scrub, scrubland, shrubbery, the wild, thicket, vine, wilderness |
| Notes: | bush and shrub are used interchangeably for relatively low woody perennials with many stems and branches that grow from a complex close to the ground; a tree is a woody perennial, usually taller, with branches starting higher up |
| 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: | distance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | interval, range |
| Synonyms: | absence, ambit, amplitude, area, bit, breadth, compass, country mile, expanse, extension, extent, far piece, farness, gap, good ways, heavens, hinterland, horizon, lapse, length, objective, orbit, outpost, outskirts, provinces, purlieu, purview, radius, reach, remoteness, remove, scope, separation, size, sky, space, span, spread, stretch, sweep, way, width |
| 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: | suburb |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | neighborhood outside of but reliant on nearby large city |
| Synonyms: | bedroom community, burb, country, countryside, environs, fringe, hamlet, hinterland, outlying area, outpost, outskirts, precinct, purlieu, residential area, slub, suburbia, village |
| Antonyms: | center, metropolis |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | back country |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | undeveloped rural area |
| Synonyms: | back o' beyond, back of beyond, backwoods, boondocks, boonies, godforsaken place, hinterland, outback, the boonies, the sticks, wilderness |
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