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глушь — meaning in English

glush

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English meaning

  • backwater noun A place seen as remote, quiet, and untouched by modern trends or major events.
  • backwoods noun Remote, thickly forested, or sparsely populated country, far from towns and cities.
  • hinterland noun The land immediately next to, and inland from, a coast.
  • wilderness noun A wild, natural area with no human settlement or cultivation.

Senses

глушь is used for these senses in English:

  • Woop Woop (Australia, informal) An extremely remote area, the middle of nowhere.
  • backwater (idiomatic, usually, figurative) A remote place: somewhere that remains unaffected by new events, progresses, ideas, etc; any field of endeavor that figuratively resembles such a place.
  • backwoods A remote or sparsely inhabited region, especially in North America; away from big towns and from the influence of modern life.
  • boondock (US, with article, almost always plural) A brushy, rural area or location.
  • hinterland A remote or undeveloped area.
  • middle of nowhere (idiomatic) A very remote or secluded area; a nondescript place lacking population, interesting things, or defining characteristics.
  • wilderness (uncountable) Uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state inhabited by wild animals and with vegetation growing wild; (countable) a tract of such land; a waste or wild.

backwater — full definition

  1. noun A place seen as remote, quiet, and untouched by modern trends or major events.
  2. noun Still water held back or diverted by a dam, obstruction, or the current of a larger river.

backwoods — full definition

  1. noun Remote, thickly forested, or sparsely populated country, far from towns and cities.
  2. adj Unsophisticated or crude, in the way associated with remote rural areas.

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