Usually means: Remote, undeveloped rural wooded area.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word backwoods:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. backwoods: Merriam-Webster
  2. backwoods: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. backwoods: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. backwoods: Collins English Dictionary
  5. backwoods: Vocabulary.com
  6. Backwoods, backwoods: Wordnik
  7. the backwoods: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. backwoods: Wiktionary
  9. backwoods: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. backwoods: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. backwoods: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Backwoods, backwoods: Dictionary.com
  13. backwoods: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Backwoods (film), Backwoods (song), Backwoods, The Backwoods: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Backwoods: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. backwoods: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. backwoods: Rhymezone
  18. Backwoods: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. BACKWOODS: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  20. backwoods: FreeDictionary.org
  21. backwoods: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. backwoods: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. backwoods: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  24. backwoods: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. backwoods: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Backwoods: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See backwoodsy as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Partly or wholly uncleared forest, especially in North America.
noun:  A remote or sparsely inhabited region, especially in North America; away from big towns and from the influence of modern life.
adjective:  Pertaining to the backwoods.
adjective:  Rough, uncouth, coarse, or crude in social matters.

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