About The Word Wilderness
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Wilderness
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What's The Definition Of Wilderness?
[n] a wild and uninhabited area
Synonyms | Synonyms for Wilderness: wild Related Terms | Find terms related to Wilderness: See Also | barren | bush | frontier | geographic area | geographic region | geographical area | geographical region | waste | wasteland Wilderness In Webster's Dictionary \Wil"der*ness\, n. [OE. wildernesse,
wilderne,probably from AS. wildor a wild beast; cf. D.
wildernis wilderness. See {Wilder}, v. t.]
1. A tract of land, or a region, uncultivated and uninhabited
by human beings, whether a forest or a wide, barren plain;
a wild; a waste; a desert; a pathless waste of any kind.
The wat'ry wilderness yields no supply. --Waller.
2. A disorderly or neglected place. --Cowper.
3. Quality or state of being wild; wildness. [Obs.]
These paths and bowers doubt not but our joint
hands. Will keep from wilderness with ease.
--Milton.
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