adj
Meaning 1
Pertaining to the backwoods.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
backwoods
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Australian, General-American: /ˈbækˌwʊdz/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈbak.wʊdz/
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British, Southern, Standard: /ˈbak.wɵdz/
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Northern-Ireland, Scotland: /ˈbak.wʉdz/
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CMU ARPABET: B AE1 K W UH1 D Z Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Rough, uncouth, coarse, or crude in social matters.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
Partly or wholly uncleared forest, especially in North America.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A remote or sparsely inhabited region, especially in North America; away from big towns and from the influence of modern life.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
a remote and undeveloped area
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: back country, boondocks, hinterland
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: country, rural area
History
Etymology
From back + woods.
Across languages
Translations
18 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Czech: divočina — uncleared forest
- French: sous-bois — uncleared forest
- Italian: boscaglia — uncleared forest
- Polish: dziki las — uncleared forest
- Czech: zapadákov — a remote place
- Czech: zaostalá oblast — a remote place
- Czech: oblast odříznutá od světa — a remote place
- Finnish: syrjäseutu — a remote place
- Finnish: takametsä — a remote place
- German: abgelegene Gegend — a remote place
- Macedonian: пусте́лија (pustélija) — a remote place
- Polish: zadupie — a remote place
- Portuguese: sertão — a remote place
- Russian: захолу́стье (zaxolústʹje) — a remote place
- Russian: глушь (glušʹ) — a remote place
- Russian: глуби́нка (glubínka) — a remote place
- Serbo-Croatian: zabit — a remote place
- Swedish: obygd — a remote place