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wasteland

[ weyst-land ]

noun

  1. land that is uncultivated or barren.
  2. an area that is devastated, as by flood, storm, or war.
  3. something, as a period of history, phase of existence, or locality, that is spiritually or intellectually barren.


wasteland

/ ˈweɪstˌlænd /

noun

  1. a barren or desolate area of land, not or no longer used for cultivation or building
  2. a region, period in history, etc, that is considered spiritually, intellectually, or aesthetically barren or desolate

    American television is a cultural wasteland

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of wasteland1

First recorded in 1630–40; waste + -land
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Example Sentences

People tend to think of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone as a nuclear wasteland.

Fundraising appeals have become a wasteland of laughable claims and empty threats that donors might not realize are so bogus or empty.

That difference is important for understanding why one rocky planet may be lush and wet and habitable, while another is an arid wasteland.

In addition, a biohybrid nose could also venture into contaminated wastelands to screen for toxic chemicals without harming a living being.

We will wake up one day in a wasteland, surrounded by the crumbling bones of those who loved us and waited for us to love them back.

Without it in the atmosphere, the Earth would be a barren, frozen wasteland.

He took a time period that was a wasteland and gave it intelligence, wit, and consistent humor.

You question every decision—personal, professional, spiritual—that has led you to this snowy wasteland.

The palm trees have gone, leaving a desolate wasteland of stumps reaching into the sky.

He might just save his regime, even if he rules little more than a wasteland filled with corpses.

Our whole Northern Hemisphere, where our greatest nations were, was devastated; much of it is wasteland to this day.

Out of the cramped ships they came, to bound in freedom and fresh breathable air across the wasteland.

It became the fashion to forsake the school field for the more adventurous wasteland of the neighbourhood.

The Magellan lifted back into the sky, then moved out over the ocher wasteland that was the barren desert of the red planet.

He chased them through the burning solitudes of that vast Northern wasteland like a veritable bloodhound.

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