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back country

back country is the alternative form of backcountry.

Meaning of backcountry

Noun

backcountry (countable and uncountable, plural backcountries)

  1. A remote region; countryside that is relatively inaccessible.
    • Near-synonyms: upcountry, interior, hinterland

Questions about back country

What is back country the alternative form of?
Back country is the alternative form of backcountry.

Words near back country in the dictionary

  1. back chat
  2. back chats
  3. back chatted
  4. back chatting
  5. back comb
  6. back country
  7. back course
  8. back courses
  9. back cover
  10. back covers
  11. back crawl

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Adapted from Wiktionary: back country (page history and authors); backcountry (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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