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Answer for the clue "Toward a nation's interior ", 9 letters:
upcountry

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Word definitions for upcountry in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Upcountry \Up"coun`try\, a. Living or situated remote from the seacoast; as, an upcountry residence. [Colloq.] -- n. The interior of the country.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of or coming from the middle of a region or country; "upcountry districts" [syn: interior , midland ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Living or situated remote from the seacoast; as, an '''upcountry''' residence. adv. Towards the interior of the country and away from the seacoast. n. The interior of the country.

Usage examples of upcountry.

Birds were coming down out of the half darkness upcountry and shearing away off the edge of the mesa and to the north the lightning stood along the rimlands like burning mandrake.

She'd gone to the South Mountain for a while, an area so upcountry and backwoods that it makes the North Mountain seem like suburbia.

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