Backwoods Definition

băkwo͝odz
noun
Heavily wooded, uncultivated, thinly settled areas.
American Heritage
Heavily wooded areas far from centers of population.
Webster's New World
An area that is far from population centers or that is held to be culturally backward.
American Heritage
Any remote, thinly populated place.
Webster's New World

Partly or wholly uncleared forest, especially in North America.

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adjective
In, from, or characteristic of backwoods.
Webster's New World
Pertaining to the backwoods.
Wiktionary

Rough, uncouth, coarse, or crude in social matters.

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Backwoods Sentence Examples

  • In the backwoods of Pennsylvania and Virginia there seemed to be better chances for a young adventurer.

  • Whether you'll looking for meal ideas for a backwoods hike or you need suggestions for how to feet a full troop of boy scouts, you'll find many great ideas on this site.

  • Trying to escape her tangled past, she has run away to the American backwoods, winding up at the Dreamy Pines Motor Court.

  • It is also worth noting that John Washington Butler, the author of the Act, was far from being a narrow-minded backwoods hick.

  • When, in 1800, the government was removed to Washington it was "a backwoods settlement in the wilderness"; as a city it existed principally on paper, and the magnificence of the design only served to emphasize the poverty of the execution.

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