Thesaurus results for BACKLAND(S)

backlands

noun

plural of backland

as in countryside

a rural region that forms the edge of the settled or developed part of a country they purposely vacationed in the backlands to get away from people

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Noun

This part of the Algarve is more golf course than countryside, after all.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Aug. 2026
What’s beautiful is the English countryside and the values of common sense and togetherness, activity and adventure.

— Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of countryside

Noun

In the blizzardy hinterlands, boredom is driving two soldiers mad, and a stranger’s arrival only underscores the futility of the war’s propaganda.

— Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 10 Aug. 2026
Putin began a neo-imperialist land grab, seizing territory around Russia’s hinterlands.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 July 2026

Definition of hinterland

Noun

Takaichi's remark crossed what China considers a red line in its relations with other countries about Taiwan, which is a self-governing island that Beijing claims as its territory.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Aug. 2026
Now, a country shaped in part by that migration is accepting people the US wants to remove.

— Nimi Princewill, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of country

Noun

No one predicted the sleepy backwater of Sassnitz would be rebranded ‘Crashnitz’ or ‘Smashnitz’ by the end of the first edition of the German Sail Grand Prix last year.

— Andrew Rice, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026
Few ideas on Wall Street have been better than the reinvention of insurance from stodgy backwater to dealmakers’ playground.

— Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of backwater

Noun

Earlier this month, Nvidia announced a program to help these types of companies as well as frontier labs access financing from six major financial firms.

— Kif Leswing, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2026
Reinforcement learning and post-training have become central to the push to make frontier models better at reasoning, coding, and carrying out multistep tasks.

— Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of frontier

Noun

Sydney Harbor will offer the latter, but eclipse chasers will head to remote areas of the Australian outback for the former.

— Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
Broken Hill Those traveling between Sydney and Adelaide will stop at this outback mining town, which has some of the world’s largest silver, lead, and zinc mineral deposits.

— Maryam Siddiqi, Travel + Leisure, 30 June 2026

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