Wilderness
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- proper noun
- /ˈwɪldərnəs/
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Wilderness (Virginia)
- In 1864, the Wilderness became known for its fierce fighting amidst dense, wooded terrain.
- Wilderness Society
- Wilderness Act
- Wilderness Area
Examples
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The release of wolves into the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness was lauded as an environmental triumph.
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Many historians regard the Wilderness as a crucial site in the struggles between Union and Confederate forces.
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An English journalist observer in the Battle of the Wilderness, a horrible battle fought in dense woods, observed this of Lee.
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The following August, my extended family backpacked in the Mt. Zirkel Wilderness of Colorado.
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The Superior National Forest website notes that the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness has changed little since the glaciers melted.
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Martha Reben is commemorated by a plaque to the "Wilderness Lady" that stands in Saranac Lake's Riverside Park.
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Take the sequence: Wilderness, Spotsylvania, North Anna, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Five Forks, Appomattox.
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A TIMELESS STRETCH OF WILDERNESS UNTOUCHED BY MAN.
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The Battle of the Wilderness was one of the most significant confrontations during the American Civil War.
Idioms
Compounds
A series of 1864 Civil War battles between Grant and Lee fought in thick forest with heavy losses
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Wilderness comes from old English parts wild + -ness, where wild means 'untamed' and -ness means 'state of being', so the word originally meant a 'state of being wild'. The Virginia place was called the Wilderness because it was a thick, untamed forest — a true 'wild place' where the fierce Civil War battles happened.