Origin: Germanic Old English prefix
Outback has 5 different meanings across 2 categories:
the bush country of the interior of Australia
"The family spent their summer holidays exploring the vast, red-dirt outback in search of wild kangaroos."
The most remote and desolate areas of Australia; the desert and areas too arid for growing crops.
"After months of driving through the dusty outback, we finally spotted a lone cattle station near the horizon."
Characteristic of the most remote and desolate areas of Australia; very remote from urban areas.
"The cattle station stretched across the vast, silent outback where no roads or towns existed for hundreds of miles."
To or towards the most remote and desolate areas of Australia.
"The cattle station stretched far into the outback, where the only sound was the wind whistling through dry scrubland."