Usually means: Remote, arid, vast Australian interior.
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  1. outback: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. outback, the outback: Merriam-Webster
  3. outback: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. outback: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. outback: Collins English Dictionary
  6. outback: Vocabulary.com
  7. Outback, outback: Wordnik
  8. the outback: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. outback: Wiktionary
  10. outback: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. outback: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. outback: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. outback, the outback: Dictionary.com
  14. outback: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Outback (G.I. Joe), Outback (album), Outback (disambiguation), Outback (group), Outback (region), Outback, The Outback (film): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. outback: Rhymezone
  17. outback: FreeDictionary.org
  18. outback: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. outback: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)

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  1. outback: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. outback: Colloquial Speech of Carleton County, New Brunswick, Canada
  2. Outback, the outback: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (outback)

▸ noun:  (Australia) The most remote and desolate areas of Australia; the desert and areas too arid for growing crops.
▸ adjective:  Characteristic of the most remote and desolate areas of Australia; very remote from urban areas.
▸ adverb:  To or towards the most remote and desolate areas of Australia.
▸ verb:  To travel or stay in the outback

Similar:
backwoods, remote, inaccessible, unaccessible, hinterland, bushland, outwaste, desert, middle of nowhere, barren, more...

Opposite:
frontier, urban, suburban, metropolitan

Types:
tundra, taiga, desert, rainforest, savanna, prairie, more...

Phrases:
the outback, Subaru Outback, Outback Steakhouse, Back to the Outback, Outback Opal Hunters, more...

Adjectives:
australian, great, remote, vast, far, rural, american, real, dry, arid, rugged

Colors:
    ochre,     rust,     sand,     olive,     sage, more...


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Similar:
backwoods, remote, inaccessible, unaccessible, hinterland, bushland, outwaste, desert, middle of nowhere, barren, more...

Opposite:
frontier, urban, suburban, metropolitan

Types:
tundra, taiga, desert, rainforest, savanna, prairie, more...

Phrases:
the outback, Subaru Outback, Outback Steakhouse, Back to the Outback, Outback Opal Hunters, Evektor EV-55 Outback, Outback Truckers, Outback Communities Authority, 2022 Outback Bowl, Gilgamesh in the Outback, more...

Adjectives:
australian, great, remote, vast, far, rural, american, real, dry, arid, rugged

Colors:
    ochre,     rust,     sand,     olive,     sage, more...



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