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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outback/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outback/#x1)
- Kangaroos hop across the outback. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outback/#x2)
- Some children in the outback do school lessons online. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outback/#x3)
- Uluru is a giant rock in the outback. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outback/#x4)
- Always carry extra water when you drive through the outback. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outback/#x5)
- The flying doctor helps people who live in the outback. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outback/#x6)
- Their farm is in the outback, hundreds of kilometres from town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outback/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/165-the-australian-outback-kangaroos-emus-thorny-devils-and-runaway-toads/16/)
- [Most of the middle of Australia, called the Outback, is hot and dry.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/45-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «outback» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outback/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.