Backwater and Town

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Backwater noun - A rural region that forms the edge of the settled or developed part of a country.

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Town and backwater are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Town" instead a noun "Backwater".

Nearby Word: backward

Town noun - A thickly settled, highly populated area.

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Backwater and town are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Backwater" instead a noun "Town".

Nearby Words: township, townsman

Ironic Hell: Twilight's mother is exiled to Ponyville - or, as she calls it, a "po-dunk, backwater mud pony town".

Source: Fanfic / Rites of Ascension
The Minister in The Backwater Gospel, who turns the town against the tramp and commands them to stone him to death for allegedly bringing The Undertaker to the town.

Source: Sinister Minister
To show why he wants to commit suicide, a Q philosopher shows the Continuum to Janeway as a tiny town on a dusty backwater road where nothing new ever happens.

Source: Mundane Afterlife

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