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What (who) is BACKWATER - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Backwaters; Back water; Backwater (disambiguation)
backwater
n. a cultural backwater
backwater
(backwaters)
1.
A backwater is a place that is isolated.
...a quiet rural backwater.
N-COUNT: usu with supp
2.
If you refer to a place or institution as a backwater, you think it is not developing properly because it is isolated from ideas and events in other places and institutions.
Britain could become a political backwater with no serious influence in the world...
N-COUNT: usu with supp [disapproval]
Backwater
·noun Water thrown back by the turning of a waterwheel, or by the paddle wheels of a steamer.
II. Backwater ·noun An accumulation of water overflowing the low lands, caused by an Obstruction.
III. Backwater ·noun Water turned back in its course by an obstruction, an opposing current , or the flow of the tide, as in a sewer or river channel, or across a river bar.
Examples of use of BACKWATER
1. Even a backwater country of a backwater region can launch devastating attacks against countries on the opposite side of the world.
2. "It seems people outside are a lot more concerned than we are." BACKWATER NO MORE Once a remote provincial backwater, Xiamen is booming.
3. Benton County wasn‘t the backwater that Monteith feared it might be.
4. It is no longer an impoverished backwater but a thriving business hub.
5. "This is not some sleepy backwater in rural Germany," said Justin Fisher at London‘s Brunel University.