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Definition: Back Country |
Back CountryNoun1. A remote and undeveloped area. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Back CountrySynonyms: backwoods (n), boondocks (n), hinterland (n). (additional references) |
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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. | ||
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| 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) | |
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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. | |
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