back country

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

[U] (AmE) an area away from roads and towns, especially in the mountains

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

back countryEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus back countryEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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