What does back country mean?

back country means "a remote and undeveloped area".

What is another word for back country?

Close synonyms include backwoods, boondocks, hinterland. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is back country a common word?

back country is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Back country — meaning and 3 synonyms

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
a remote and undeveloped area
Synonymsbackwoods boondocks hinterland
Broadercountry

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What does back country mean?: back country means "a remote and undeveloped area".
What is another word for back country?: Close synonyms include backwoods, boondocks, hinterland. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

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