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wasteland

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waste·land  (wstlnd)
n.
1. Land that is desolate, barren, or ravaged.
2. A place, era, or aspect of life considered as lacking in spiritual, aesthetic, or other humanizing qualities; a vacuum: a cultural wasteland.

wasteland
Noun
1. a barren or desolate area of land
2. something that is considered spiritually, intellectually, or aesthetically barren: the TV wasteland
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.wastelandwasteland - an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert"
heathland, heath - a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation
wild, wilderness - a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition; "it was a wilderness preserved for the hawks and mountaineers"

wasteland
Translations

wasteland [ˈweɪstlənd] n (urban) → descampados mpl
wasteland [ˈweɪstlənd] nterres fpl à l'abandon;
(in town) → terrain(s) m(pl) vague(s)
wasteland [ˈweɪstlənd] waste nÖdland nt;
(in town) → ödes Gebiet nt (fig); Einöde f
wasteland [ˈweɪstlænd] nterra desolata


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At the foot of the hill lay wasteland over which a few groups of our Cossack scouts were moving.
For two days they drifted over this horrid wasteland.
Below them they saw the dense vegetation of the jungle give place to the scantier growth upon the hillside, and then before them there spread the wide expanse of arid wastelands marked by the deep scarring of the narrow gorges that long-gone rivers had cut there in some forgotten age.
 
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