Back Country (Noun)
Meaning
A remote and undeveloped area.
Classification
Nouns denoting spatial position.
Examples
- The hikers spent hours navigating through the dense back country, searching for a glimpse of the elusive mountain lion.
- The park ranger warned us to stay on the trail and avoid venturing into the back country, where the terrain was treacherous and cell phone reception was spotty.
- After days of traveling through the back country, the explorers finally stumbled upon an old, abandoned mine shaft hidden deep in the wilderness.
- The back country of Alaska was a vast and unforgiving expanse of wilderness, where only the hardiest of adventurers dared to tread.
- As we flew over the back country in the small plane, the pilot pointed out the scattered homesteads and ranches that dotted the landscape like tiny islands.