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Definitions: Backwoods |
BackwoodsAdjective1. Inaccessible and sparsely populated. Noun1. A remote and undeveloped area. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "backwoods" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1841. (references) |
Note: Backwoods \Back"woods"\, plural noun. [Back, adjective. woods.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: BackwoodsSynonyms: backwoods(a) (adj), outback(a) (adj), remote (adj), back country (n), boondocks (n), hinterland (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Limit | Noun: limit, boundary, bounds, confine, enclave, term, bourn, verge, curbstone, but, pale, reservation; termination, terminus; stint, frontier, precinct, marches; backwoods. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | She comes from a long line of backwoods nymphos. (American Gothic; writing credit: Mariana Reyes; Doris Segu) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Backwoods Bunny (1959) A Romance of the Backwoods (1915) Nan o' the Backwoods (1915) Backwoods (1996) | |
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| "Backwoods" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Backwoods" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 26 | 68,323 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
backwoods | 61 |
backwoods cigar | 38 |
backwoods home | 28 |
backwoods home magazine | 18 |
backwoods smoker | 15 |
backwoods magazine | 10 |
backwoods solar | 10 |
backwoods smoke | 9 |
backwoods camp christian | 8 |
backwoods gt | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "backwoods"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vend i humbur. (various references) | |
Arabic | غابات غير مأهولة, الغابات الخلفية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | горски пущинаци. (various references) | |
Czech | zálesí (woodland). (various references) | |
Farsi | جنگلهای دورافتاده , اراضی جنگلی دورازشهر. (various references) | |
Finnish | sydänmaa, salomaa (hinterland), salo (the wilds), korpi (wilderness), kaira (auger, drill). (various references) | |
French | forêt en arrière. (various references) | |
German | Hinterwälder. (various references) | |
Hungarian | õserdõ (jungle, virgin forest). (various references) | |
Indonesian | daerah hutan. (various references) | |
Italian | luogo isolato, foreste vergini. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 奥地 (back regions, hinterland, interior). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おくち (back regions, hinterland, interior), おうち (back regions, basin, depression, hinterland, hollow, interior, pit, reaching a peak, reaching the limit). (various references) | |
Manx | keylljyn fadaneagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ackwoodsbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sertão (jungle, wilderness), serta~o, regia~o remota, rude (abrupt, barbaric, boisterous, bumbling, caveman, cloddish, coarse, crude, discourtesy, displeasing, disrobe, got-up, gruff, harsh, homespun, hussar, incondite, knockabout, larrup, lowly, point blank, raw, rough, rude, rugged, rumbustious, rustic, snippy, tart, tough, unaffable, uncivil, uncouth, uneducated, ungracious, unkind, unnurtured, unpolished, untaught, upstage), roça (brush management, country, countryside, estate, ground clearance, ground clearing, property, scrub clearance, slash, slashing), rústico (boor, boorish, bumbling, bumpkin, chuff, churl, churlish, cloddish, clodhopper, clown, countrified, hawbuck, hickory, hind, homely, ill mannered, lob, louver, low brow, lubber, lubber-head, mucker, pease, rude, rural, rustic, rustical, uncouth, underbred, yokel), floresta do interior. (various references) | |
Romanian | regiune înapoiatã, fundul provinciei. (various references) | |
Russian | лесная глушь. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | šumski predeo. (various references) | |
Spanish | bosque (backwood, forest, timber, wood, woodland, woods), selvas de interior, región apartada, rústico (churlish, clownish, countrified, Hick, rural, rustic, sylvan, yokel). (various references) | |
Swedish | obygd (outback, undeveloped country). (various references) | |
Turkish | taşra (back country, boondocks, bush league, country, freshwater, jerkwater, jerkwater town, outback, provincial, the provinces, upcountry, upstate), ormanın iç kısmı, geri kalmış bölge (boondocks). (various references) | |
Ukranian | темний (abstruse, black, cimmerian, dark, darkling, darksome, lowering, murk, murky, nightly, nigrescent, obscure, occult, opaque, shaded, smutty, somber, sombre), глухий (atonic, deaf, noteless, obtuse, one horse, surd, unvoiced), неотесаний (barbaric, bearish, chuffy, crude, home-bred, homely, oafish, ramshackle, woolly, wooly), малокультурний, лісова глушина, провінційний (country, doric, provincial). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "backwoods": backwoodsman, backwoodsmen, backwoodsy. (additional references) | |
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"Backwoods" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: backwood, backwoodsy, Bockwurst. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "backwoods" (pronounced ba"kwuh'dz) |
| 4 | -w uh' d z | cottonwoods, dogwoods, hardwoods, redwoods, Underwoods, wildwoods. |
| 3 | -uh' d z | childhoods, falsehoods, livelihoods, neighborhoods. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-d-k-o-o-s-w" | |
-1 letter: backwood. | |
-3 letters: adobos, wackos. | |
-4 letters: adobo, backs, bawds, bocks, books, codas, cooks, dawks, docks, kobos, socko, wacko, wacks, woads, woods. | |
-5 letters: abos, ados, back, bads, bask, bawd, boas, bock, bods, book, boos, bosk, bows, cabs, cads, cask, caws, cobs, coda, cods, cook, coos, cows, dabs, daks, dawk, daws, dock, docs, dows, kabs, koas, kobo, kobs, oaks, ocas, okas, sack, scab, scad, scow, soak, sock, soda, sook, swab, swob, wabs, wack, wads, woad, woks, wood, woos. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-d-k-o-o-s-w" | |
+1 letter: backwoodsy, blackwoods. | |
+3 letters: backwoodsman, backwoodsmen. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 61 63 6B 77 6F 6F 64 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .- -.-. -.- .--. --- --- -.. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100001 01100011 01101011 01110111 01101111 01101111 01100100 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a c k w o o d s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 0063 006B 0077 006F 006F 0064 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)366769778981817085 |
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