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:

• 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.