backwoods.

Remote or little-developed wooded countryside, often viewed from outside as distant from urban life.

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Words that belong together

• the backwoods
• a backwoods settlement

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The road ended where the backwoods began.

A backwoods settlement kept its own record of the travelers who passed through.

Usage notes

Primary category: setting. Forms: Established plural-form collective noun backwoods; also used attributively. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.