back forty

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The remote part of a farm. Canada,US
    — They couldn't contact the farmer right away because he was out plowing the back forty
  2. The most remote or inaccessible part of any place. Canada,US,idiomatic

词形变化

back forties plural

词源

From back + forty, meaning “back side of a farm”. In the Homestead Acts (1860s–), farmers were granted a quarter section; a section was nominally 1 square mile containing 640 acres, a quarter section was 160 acres, and the quarter section was itself subdivided into four quarter-quarter sections of 40 acres each: two front forty and two back forty. Compare north forty, back of beyond, backcountry, and backwater.
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