Meaning

7 senses
  1. (uncountable)Uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state inhabited by wild animals and with vegetation growing wild; (countable) a tract of such land; a waste or wild.

    Wildnis, Wüste

    ди́кая приро́даdíkaja priróda, нетро́нутая приро́даnetrónutaja priróda, целина́celiná

  2. (broadly, countable)A place other than land (for example, the air or sea) that is uncared for, and therefore devoted to disorder or wildness.

  3. (broadly, countable)An ornamental part of a garden or park cultivated with trees and often a maze to evoke a natural wilderness.

  4. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)Chiefly followed by of: a bewildering flock or throng; a large, often jumbled, collection of things.

  5. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)A place or situation that is bewildering and in which one may get lost.

  6. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)Preceded by in the: a situation of disfavour or lack of recognition; (specifically, politics) of a politician, political party, etc.: a situation of being out of office.

  7. (broadly, obsolete, uncountable)Unrefinedness; wildness.

More definitions
  • a bewildering profusion
  • a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition
  • a wooded region in northeastern Virginia near Spotsylvania where bloody but inconclusive battles were fought in the American Civil War
  • (politics) a state of disfavor

Examples

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  1. The newcomers cultivated the immense wilderness.

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  2. Ziri headed out into the wilderness.

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  3. Igor is going into the wilderness.

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  4. Miroslav went further into the wilderness.

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  5. Llamas don't exist in the wilderness.

    ruЛамы не обитают в дикой природе.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land:

Origin

From Middle English wildernes, wildernesse (“desolate or uninhabited place, desolation”) [

From Middle English wildernes, wildernesse (“desolate or uninhabited place, desolation”) [and other forms], and then either:

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