outback (1893) 오스트랄리아의 오지 (奧地)

Outback. 오스트랄리아의 오지. 고립된 시골 지역.

 

 

outback

: isolated rural country especially of Australia

 

 

Synonyms

 

 

backcountry

backland(s)

backwater

 

backwoods

bush

frontier

 

hinterland

outlands

up-country

 

 

Examples of outback in a Sentence

 

 

 

people who live in the Australian outback tend to be self-sufficient

Recent Examples on the Web

Flinders Food Co This rustic outback eatery has all the verve and style of an urban cafe.

—Justin Meneguzzi, Travel + Leisure, 16 June 2024

More than 540 million years ago, what is now South Australia’s outback was part of the continent’s thundering coastline.

—Justin Meneguzzi, Travel + Leisure, 16 June 2024

Like the other films, this one is set in the Australian outback, ravaged by apocalypse.

—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 17 May 2024

The rock dating and magnetic analyses were elaborate, with fourteen weeks of sampling and camping in the Australian outback in 2013 and 2014, followed by years of lab work.

—Howard Lee, Ars Technica, 16 Aug. 2023

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Burke and Wills Expedition. First Explorers to attempt crossing Australia from South to North. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Word History

First Known Use

 

1893, in the meaning defined above

 

Time Traveler

 

The first known use of outback was in 1893

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