| Main Entry: | outback |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | back country |
Synonyms: |
bush, country, remote, rural, wilderness |
| Main Entry: | backwoods |
| Part of Speech: | noun, adjective |
| Definition: | forests; land distant from settled area |
Synonyms: |
backcountry, boondocks, frontier, hinterland, interior, isolation, outback, rural area, sticks, terra incognita, timberland, woodland |
| Main Entry: | bush |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shrubs; woodland |
Synonyms: |
backcountry, backwoods, boscage, bramble, briar, brush, chaparral, creeper, forest, hedge, hinterland, jungle, outback, plant, scrub, scrubland, shrubbery, the wild, thicket, vine, wilderness |
| Notes: | bush and shrub are used interchangeably for relatively low woody perennials with many stems and branches that grow from a complex close to the ground; a tree is a woody perennial, usually taller, with branches starting higher up |
| Main Entry: | country |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rural area; area away from city |
Synonyms: |
back country, backwoods, boondocks, boonies, bush, countryside, cow country, farmland, farms, forests, green belt, hinterland, middle of nowhere, outback, outdoors, province, sticks, up country, wide open space, wilderness, wilds, woodlands, woods |
Antonyms: |
city, metropolis, urbanity |
| Main Entry: | frontier |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unexplored, unoccupied area of land |
Synonyms: |
backcountry, backwater, backwoods, boondocks, boonies, bush, hinterland, outback, outskirts, sticks, unknown* |
Antonyms: |
metropolis |
| Main Entry: | hinterland |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | backcountry |
Synonyms: |
boondocks, boonies, borderland, brush, bush country, frontier, outback, sticks, wasteland, wilderness, woods |
| Main Entry: | wilderness/wilds |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | uninhabited area |
Synonyms: |
back country, back of beyond, badland, barrens, boondocks, bush, desert, forest, hinterland, jungle, middle of nowhere, outback, primeval forest, sticks, waste, wasteland, wild |
Antonyms: |
city, metropolis |
| Main Entry: | back country |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | undeveloped rural area |
Synonyms: |
back o' beyond, back of beyond, backwoods, boondocks, boonies, godforsaken place, hinterland, outback, the boonies, the sticks, wilderness |
| Main Entry: | wilderness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | forest |
Synonyms: |
back country, badland, barrens, boondocks, boonies, bush, desert, forest, hinterland, jungle, no-man's land, outback, primeval forest, sticks, waste, wasteland, wild, wilds |
Antonyms: |
city, metropolis |
| Main Entry: | country |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
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