Meaning

4 senses
  1. A place with no remaining resources; a desert.

    Ten years of drought had left the area a wasteland.

    Ödland, Wüste, Wüstenlandschaft

    пу́стошьpústošʹ, пусты́рьpustýrʹ

    пу́стищеpústyšče, пу́сткаpústka, пустовщи́наpustovščýna

  2. Any barren or uninteresting place.

    After his experiences, he no longer found western Kansas such a wasteland.

    Ödnis, öde Gegend

    пусты́няpustýnja, боло́тоbolóto, дыра́dyrá

  3. A devastated, uninhabitable area.

  4. Unused land.

More definitions
  • an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation

Examples

5 sentences
  1. What brings you to this wasteland?

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  2. The wasteland is not a hospitable place.

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  3. I didn't expect to meet anyone in this wasteland.

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  4. You must be mad if you think that you'll be able to find food in the wasteland.

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  5. They plunder, they slaughter, and they steal: this they falsely name Empire, and where they make a wasteland, they call it peace.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
region with no remaining resources; desert:
Русский
By meaning 2
region with no remaining resources; desert:
barren and uninteresting place:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
region with no remaining resources; desert:
barren and uninteresting place:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English wast lond, modification of earlier weste lond, from Old Engl

Inherited from Middle English wast lond, modification of earlier weste lond, from Old English weste land (“wasteland”); equivalent to waste + land.

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Forms

plural: wastelands
Singularwasteland
Pluralwastelands

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation:barrenwaste

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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