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Definition of Backland
1. Noun. Land that lies behind or beyond some primary settlement or development. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Backland
1. a region remote from cities [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Backland
Literary usage of Backland
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Face of the Earth: (Das Antlitz Der Erde) by Eduard Suess (1904)
"The folded chain is always sharply bounded on the side towards the foreland, but
in the Alps its relations to the backland can only be recognized with great ..."
2. The Future of the Southern Slavs by A. H. E. Taylor (1917)
"For over five centuries it has been a possession of the House of Habsburg; it is
the port of entry and egress for a vast backland inhabited by various races ..."
3. The English Catalogue of Books by Sampson Low (1905)
"04 backland (AR)—Text Studies for Year, 6s. Oct. 04 backland (Mary K.)—Trusty:
Our New Forest Pony. Шив. Cr. 8vo. 74 x 6i, pp. 96, 2s. 6d. RB JOHNSON, Nov. ..."
4. Charge of the Lord Chief Justice of England to the Grand Jury at the Central by Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, Frederick Cockburn, Great Britain Central Criminal Court, Herbert Charles Alexander Brand, Alexander Abercromby Nelson (1867)
"We must get up some men for to go to Morant Bay to seek about the backland, and
if we don't get the backland, all the buckra they will be die. ..."
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