Antonyms for back-country


Grammar : Adj, noun


Definition of back-country

  • As in inland : adj interior
  • As in back country : noun undeveloped rural area
Example sentences :
  • Odd religious sects and strange "isms" were to be found in the back-country.
  • Extract from : « Union and Democracy » by Allen Johnson
  • As to the back-country settlements, the House of Burgesses should have provided for them.
  • Extract from : « A Virginia Scout » by Hugh Pendexter
  • "Oh, they are only back-country folk," said Lambert, rather impatiently.
  • Extract from : « Hans Brinker » by Mary Mapes Dodge
  • She had said she was going away, and she did not like going away from the back-country.
  • Extract from : « The Black Opal » by Katharine Susannah Prichard
  • There is a story of a clergyman coming to a back-country station in Australia during the agony of a great drought.
  • Extract from : « Problems of the Pacific » by Frank Fox
  • They were marched into the palms, and the back-country swallowed them up—all the crew of the Haliotis.
  • Extract from : « The Day's Work, Volume 1 » by Rudyard Kipling
  • Eight months in the back-country among the leeches, at a temperature of 84 degrees moist, is very bad for the nerves.
  • Extract from : « The Day's Work, Volume 1 » by Rudyard Kipling
  • She had been a fossil in a back-country place all her life, and of course they felt she did not know.
  • Extract from : « Cloudy Jewel » by Grace Livingston Hill
  • He rode day after day across those barren wastes of back-country, and spared no effort to find some sign of the missing man.
  • Extract from : « The Bushranger's Secret » by Mrs. Henry Clarke
  • The tall young man was accounted handsome in a crude, back-country way and fancied himself the devil of a fellow with the ladies.
  • Extract from : « A Pagan of the Hills » by Charles Neville Buck

Synonyms for back-country

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