out-country

[ out-kuhn-tree ]

noun

1. a remote area or region; hinterland.

Word History and Origins

Origin of out-country¹

First recorded in 1630–40

Example Sentences

Then calm crept back to La Paz, but new violence broke out the next day in out-country Cochabamba and Oruro.

From Time Magazine Archive

With his clear, healthy, out-country look �5 ft.

From Time Magazine Archive

We know that it is somewhere across the world, and we ought to find it, and we know, too, that its out-country is like these October afternoons, and our hearts beat wildly for a moment, then the truth strikes and we see that this is not The Land.

From Project Gutenberg

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