Synonyms for back-country
| Grammar : Adj, noun |
Top 10 synonyms for back-country
Définition of back-country
- As in inland : adj interior
- As in back country : noun undeveloped rural area
- 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
Antonyms for back-country
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