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wilderness

About 8.78 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun Uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state inhabited by wild animals and with vegetation growing wild; a tract of such land; a waste or wild.
  2. noun A place other than land (for example, the air or sea) that is uncared for, and therefore devoted to disorder or wildness. An ornamental part of a garden or park cultivated with trees and often a maze to evoke a natural wilderness. Unrefinedness; wildness.
  3. noun A place other than land (for example, the air or sea) that is uncared for, and therefore devoted to disorder or wildness.
  4. noun An ornamental part of a garden or park cultivated with trees and often a maze to evoke a natural wilderness.
  5. noun Unrefinedness; wildness.
  6. noun Chiefly followed by of: a bewildering flock or throng; a large, often jumbled, collection of things. A place or situation that is bewildering and in which one may get lost. Preceded by in the: a situation of disfavour or lack of recognition; of a politician, political party, etc.: a situation of being out of office.
  7. noun Chiefly followed by of: a bewildering flock or throng; a large, often jumbled, collection of things.
  8. noun A place or situation that is bewildering and in which one may get lost.

Similar words

wild wildland backcountry hinterland wild-type walkabout ground shipment jungle forest

Often followed by

of and to areas in area is was for

Word family

wildernesses

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