outback

«outback» in Mova's school dictionary: the huge, dry, mostly empty land far inland in Australia… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (the outback)

meaning for a pupil

The outback is the huge, dry, mostly empty land far inland in Australia, far away from the cities and the coast. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in geography and stories about Australia: red desert, few people, kangaroos, cattle stations and long roads. Children in the outback may do school by radio or internet. Safety: in the outback carry lots of water because towns are very far apart.

examples

• The outback is hot and dry. tree →
• Kangaroos hop across the outback. tree →
• Some children in the outback do school lessons online. tree →
• Uluru is a giant rock in the outback. tree →
• Always carry extra water when you drive through the outback. tree →
• The flying doctor helps people who live in the outback. tree →
• Their farm is in the outback, hundreds of kilometres from town. tree →

note

Usually "the outback", often with a capital O. Used mostly about Australia. Uncountable, no plural.

In the corpora

• After rare rains the outback can burst into flowers, and some frogs dig into the ground and wait years for the next rain.
• Most of the middle of Australia, called the Outback, is hot and dry.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «outback» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.