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outback
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun outback has 1 sense
- outback(n = noun.location) Array - the bush country of the interior of Australia; Array is a kind of bush
has particulars: never-never
is a part of australian desert, great australian desert
Derived form adjective outback1
Adjective outback has 1 sense
- outback(s = adj.all) remote - inaccessible and sparsely populated; Array Derived form noun outback1
CIDE DICTIONARY
outback, n.
The remote bush country of Australia; as, they hunted kangaroo in the outback. [WordNet 1.5]
outback, adj.
same as out-of-the-way. [WordNet 1.5]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
outback, n. esp. Austral. the remote and usu. uninhabited inland districts.
Derivative
outbacker n.
THESAURUS
outback
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