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BACKWOODS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does backwoods mean?
• BACKWOODS (noun)
The noun BACKWOODS has 1 sense:
1. a remote and undeveloped area
Familiarity information: BACKWOODS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A remote and undeveloped area
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
back country; backwoods; boondocks; hinterland
Hypernyms ("backwoods" is a kind of...):
country; rural area (an area outside of cities and towns)
Context examples
The man was a primitive savage from the backwoods of San Pedro, and this was his fetish.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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