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Wilderness

Wilderness Meaning & Definition
Wilderness Definition And Meaning

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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