backwoods

• POS: Noun Plural
• HYPHEN: back=woods

CIDE DICTIONARY

backwoods, n. pl. [Back, a. + woods.].

 The forests or partly cleared grounds on the frontiers.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

backwoods, n.pl.
1 remote uncleared forest land.
2 any remote or sparsely inhabited region.

THESAURUS

backwoods

back, back country, back of beyond, back-country, backcountry, backwash, backwater, backwood, backwoodsy, boondock, boondocks, borderland, brush, bush, bush country, bushveld, forests, frontier, hinterland, outback, outpost, sticks, sylvan, the bush, timbers, uninhabited region, up-country, virgin, virgin land, virgin territory, waste, wasteland, wild, wild West, wilderness, wilds, woodland, woodlands, woods

ROGET THESAURUS

backwoods

Limit

N limit, boundary, bounds, confine, enclave, term, bourn, verge, curbstone, but, pale, reservation, termination, terminus, stint, frontier, precinct, marches, backwoods, boundary line, landmark, line of demarcation, line of circumvallation, pillars of Hercules, Rubicon, turning point, ne plus ultra, sluice, floodgate, definite, conterminate, conterminable, terminal, frontier, bordering, thus far, thus far and no further, stick to the reservation, go beyond the pale, Special.