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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun backwoods has 1 sense
- backwoods(n = noun.location) back country, boondocks, hinterland - a remote and undeveloped area; Array is a kind of country, rural area
CIDE DICTIONARY
backwoods, n. pl. [Back, a. + woods.].
The forests or partly cleared grounds on the frontiers. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
backwoods, n.pl.
1 remote uncleared forest land.
2 any remote or sparsely inhabited region.
1 remote uncleared forest land.
2 any remote or sparsely inhabited region.
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backwoods
back, back country, back of beyond, back-country, backcountry, backwash, backwater, backwood, backwoodsy, boondock, boondocks, borderland, brush, bush, bush country, bushveld, forests, frontier, hinterland, outback, outpost, sticks, sylvan, the bush, timbers, uninhabited region, up-country, virgin, virgin land, virgin territory, waste, wasteland, wild, wild West, wilderness, wilds, woodland, woodlands, woodsROGET THESAURUS
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Limit
N limit, boundary, bounds, confine, enclave, term, bourn, verge, curbstone, but, pale, reservation, termination, terminus, stint, frontier, precinct, marches, backwoods, boundary line, landmark, line of demarcation, line of circumvallation, pillars of Hercules, Rubicon, turning point, ne plus ultra, sluice, floodgate, definite, conterminate, conterminable, terminal, frontier, bordering, thus far, thus far and no further, stick to the reservation, go beyond the pale, Special.
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