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Back Country

Definition: Back Country

Back Country

Noun

1. A remote and undeveloped area.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Back Country

Synonyms: backwoods (n), boondocks (n), hinterland (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Back Country

DomainTitle

Books

  • Cee Dub's Dutch Oven and Other Camp Cookin': A Back Country Guide to Outdoor Cooking Spiced with Tall Tales (reference)

  • Ramona Round and About: A History of San Diego County's Little Known Back Country (reference)

  • Scenic Driving Back Country Byways (Falcon Guide) (reference)

  • Skin of the Earth: Stories from Nevada's Back Country (Western Literature Series) (reference)

  • The Back Country (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • Fly Fishing Video Magazine Vol. 61 Chile's Back Country Browns (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Back Country

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Lake Fork of the Gunnison River, Alpine Loop National Back Country Byway. Credit: Arden Anderson.

Back Country. Credit: Arden Anderson.

Approaching the west side of Steens Mountain on the south segment of the Steens Back Country Byway. Credit: Mark Armstrong.

Steens Mountain back country byway sign near French Glen. Credit: Mark Armstrong.

Mountain biking in the Rooster Comb area along Big Indian Gorge on Steens Mountain back country byway. Credit: Mark Armstrong.

Typical back country juniper zone in the South Steens. Credit: Unknown.

Red Gulch/Alkali Back Country Byway, Worland Field Office. Credit: Jerry Sintz.

Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite showing some of the developed facilities and the tracksite, along Red Gulch/Alkali Back Country Byway, Worland Field Office. Credit: Jerry Sintz.

View of tracksite at Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite along Red Gulch/Alkali Back Country Byway, Worland Field Office. Credit: Jerry Sintz.

View along the Red Gulch/Alkali Back Country Byway, Worland Field Office. Credit: Jerry Sintz.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Back Country

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

back country store

37

kelty back country

16

back country skiing

16

back country horsemen

15

denali back country lodge

12

back country ski

4

back country horseman

4

back country glacier national park

3

back country kenai lodge

3

back country horsemen washington

2

2 back country eureka

2

airstrip back country idaho

2

back country takin

2

back country first aid

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Back Country

Language Translations for "back country"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Indonesian

  

pedalaman (hinterland, inland, interior), daerah pedalaman. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

片"舎 (remote countryside). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

かたいなか (remote countryside). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ackbay ountrycay.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

глушь (boondocks, hinterland, wilderness, wildernesses), отдаленные от центра районы. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

taşra (backwoods, boondocks, bush league, country, freshwater, jerkwater, jerkwater town, outback, provincial, the provinces, upcountry, upstate), geri kalmış yöreler. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

глушина (back-blocks, desert, nook, wasteness), малонаселена місцевість. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Back Country

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: backcountry.

Words within the letters "a-b-c-c-k-n-o-r-t-u-y"

-2 letters: backcourt.

-3 letters: buckayro, corybant.

-4 letters: account, backout, buoyant, country, courant, cutback, cutbank, outback, outbark, outrank, rockaby, runback, truancy.

-5 letters: aroynt, barony, baryon, botany, bouncy, bounty, buckra, burton, cantor, carbon, carboy, carton, cobnut, concur, contra, corban, cornua, county, cracky, cranky, craton, crayon, croaky, curacy, koruna, koruny, notary, outcry, outran, rubato, ryokan, tabour, toucan, turaco, turban.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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