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Meaning of backveld | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

Backward and unsophisticated rural areas.

Africa, Southern

Examples

“And how was she to know that one may live in London, or New York, a village in Yorkshire, or a dorp in the backveld […] but one behaves inevitably, inexorably, exactly like everyone else.”

“If it hadn't been for Susan he might have ended his life in some small, forgotten backveld village, quietly content to teach a bit of history and geography to one generation of school children after the other […].”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

backvelder Backward backward compatibility backward compliment backward design backward dive