Definitions for back-country

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Back-Country is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 661 anagrams from letters in back-country (-abccknortuy).

Definitions for back-country

noun

  1. a sparsely populated rural region remote from a settled area.
  2. Australian. a remote, undeveloped part of a large farm or cattle station.

Origin of back-country

First recorded in 1740-50

Examples for back-country

Jeeps were common in the Philippines, since they were ideal vehicles for the back country.

The Moors of the back country were strange people, and one left them alone.

They sent it into the back country that the people there might view it.

To it the east was a back country; and its front face was to the west.

Some Loyalists were deported to the wilderness in the back country.

There was rumor of vast caves that riddled the back country.

As it is, parts of her back country are enough to frighten one, they look so bony.

The back country of Virginia was also a scene of massacre and rapine.

After 1680 settlements began to expand into the back country.

There were other important consequences from the settlement of the back country.

Word Value for back-country
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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