Meaning

3 senses

  1. Wasteland; a desert or other place that does not support life.

  2. A place of death; a deadly land.

  3. The afterlife, especially in belief systems that do not include reward or punishment such as heaven and hell.

Origin

From dead + land.

From dead + land.

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Forms

plural: deadlands
Singulardeadland
Pluraldeadlands

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
deadA2deadbeatdeadenC2deadliestdeadlineB1deadlock

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