[
UK
/bˈækwɔːtɐ/
]
[ US /ˈbæˌkwɔtɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈbæˌkwɔtɝ/ ]
NOUN
-
a place or condition in which no development or progress is occurring
the country is an economic backwater -
a body of water that was created by a flood or tide or by being held or forced back by a dam
the bayous and backwaters are breeding grounds for mosquitos
How To Use backwater In A Sentence
- I'm now counting down to my 38th birthday, and then the second anniversary of the inception of this web backwater.
- It seems the Yellow Sword prefers the quiet backwater streams to the large deep rivers.
- But there was no apparent reason for anybody to harbour idle curiosity about this particular backwater. THE LAST TEMPTATION
- The South at one time was viewed as the cultural backwater of the nation, both as an economic liability and a social embarrassment.
- This one tide won't lag behind because of ours and backwater.
- It's a quiet residential backwater surrounded by old Victorian terraces.
- Once an obscure backwater of the publishing business, computer books have gone mainstream.
- Britain could become a political backwater with no serious influence in the world.
- The joint venture calls for the companies to explore three sections in the Kara Sea, an icebound coastal backwater north of central Russia.
- Not that there was anything to see in this quiet rural backwater. ALL ABOUT LOVE
