Meaning

1 senses
  1. (Australia, uncountable, usually)The most remote and desolate areas of Australia; the desert and areas too arid for growing crops.

    1951 June, W. J. Banks, Flying Doctors of the Outback, The Rotarian, page 23, Communication like this is making a big change in the lives of Australia′s “outback” people.

    Outback

    малонаселённая ме́стностьmalonaseljónnaja méstnostʹ, австрали́йская глуби́нкаavstralíjskaja glubínka, глуби́нкаglubínka

More definitions
  • the bush country of the interior of Australia

Examples

23 sentences
  1. Layla got lost in the outback.

  2. Fyodor went camping in the outback.

  3. Layla saw some kangaroos in the outback.

  4. Layla continued to wander in the outback.

  5. Layla will spend the night in the outback.

Translations

4 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
the most remote and desolate areas of Australia:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
the most remote and desolate areas of Australia:

Origin

From out + back.

From out + back.

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Forms

plural: outbacks
Singularoutback

uncountable

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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