noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
quiet
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Hotel Trevi was some five minutes' walk away in a quiet backwater .
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He wandered towards the old harbour, now little more than a quiet backwater .
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It seems the Yellow Sword prefers the quiet backwater streams to the large deep rivers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a sleepy backwater town
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Instead of being a backwater , they may in fact be an avant-garde.
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It has been a forgotten backwater .
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It is entirely possible that our backwater of a planet is literally the only one that has ever borne life.
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Once an obscure backwater of the publishing business, computer books have gone mainstream.
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Overnight the bond market was transformed from a backwater into a casino.
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Surely this was nothing but a backwater to civilization?
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The urban street and the rural village are both, in their different ways, educational backwaters.