명사
A remote tract of land in the interior; hence (in plural) sparsely populated country far from major cities and lacking conveniences common in urban areas.
용법- Australia
- New-Zealand
- plural-normally
- 예문
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Near-synonyms: upcountry, interior, hinterland
I speak solely for the backblock roads, and I contend that the time has arrived when the Government should turn its attention to the metalling of these roads.
더 많은 예문 (3)
It has happened in other districts that new settlement has turned the old centres into isolated backblocks.
Backblocks hardship is a very real thing, but Mary Scott expresses it somewhat too much in the Victorian ‘There′s a tear on your eye’ mode, little graves on the hillside and old servants, horses and dogs, faithful to the last.
The weeping man was an emancipist who had a backblock in the next valley & sometimes came over to see his cobber the shepherd, both being Roscommon men.
The most distally outlying suburb among a set of suburbs.
용법- Australia
- excessive
- 비격식
- plural-normally
Land behind which fronts on water; land without a permanent watercourse.