Backwoods
Definition of backwoods:
part of speech: noun
BACKWOODSMAN.
part of speech: noun
The forest or uncultivated part of a country beyond the cleared country, as in N. Amer.
part of speech: noun
Forests or partly cleared land on the outskirts of a newly settled country; a remote, thinly settled district far from any town or city.
Usage examples for backwoods:
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Some couldn't read or write and one was straight out of the Kentucky backwoods
"The Biography of a Rabbit", Roy Benson, Jr.. -
I was told, moreover, that the story had gone abroad that the part of Sir Peter would be taken by a youthful Virginia mountaineer, whose giant proportions and unusual gifts of person and bearing- considering his backwoods breeding- made him the feature of the performance.
"Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman", Willie Walker Caldwell. -
Here was the backwoods surviving into the day of Trusts; and yet we talk of a world drifted hopelessly far from the old ideals!
"Short Stories and Essays From "Literature and Life"", William Dean Howells. -
That may be among the work required of you in the backwoods of Canada, who knows?"
"Janet's Love and Service", Margaret M Robertson.