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☆ back·woods (-wo̵odz′)
plural noun
- heavily wooded areas far from centers of population
- any remote, thinly populated place
adjective
Related Forms:
- backwoodsman back′·woods′·man (-mən) noun pl. backwoodsmen -·men (-mən)
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Adjective modifier
- American: Trying to escape her tangled past, she has run away to the American backwoods, winding up at the Dreamy Pines Motor Court.
Modifies a noun
- cooking: Two teams from the Troop took part in the District backwoods cooking competition.
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If these sketches should prove the means of deterring onefamily fromsinking their property, andshipwrecking all their hopes, by going to reside in the backwoods of Canada, I shall consider myself amply repaid for revealing the secrets of the prison-house, and feel that I have not toiled and suffered in the wilderness in vain.
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