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Wildwood

Wildwood

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A name for several places, especially a seaside resort town in New Jersey, United States
  • proper noun
  • /ˈwaɪldˌwʊd/
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  • Widespread flooding was also reported in oceanfront areas like Cape May, Wildwood, and Long Beach Island.
  • Wildwood, New Jersey
  • Wildwood, N.J.
  • Wildwood Park

Examples

  • The pale blue light reminded her of Wildwood and Atlantic City.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • In Wildwood, Stephen worked on a fishing boat, a deep-sea charter named The Pied Piper.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • Sure you could, in Wildwood, New Jersey.

    Wall Street (1987)

  • The trip from Philadelphia to the beach at Wildwood, New Jersey, was almost a hundred miles.

    Academic text (2009)

  • One favorite spot in Wildwood is targeted to get a high ropes course.

    Blog text (22)

  • Taste of the Town drew crowds from all around Eureka and Wildwood to EHS to enjoy a large assortment of food.

    Blog text (32)

  • The Coalition of Essential Schools (CES) recently named Wildwood a CES Mentor School.

    Academic text (2005)

  • We were coming home after a weekend in Wildwood, New Jersey, with Artie Bennett in his rattling black Buick convertible when we decided.

    Academic text (2009)

  • Point Pleasant, Seaside Heights, Wildwood, Cape May—all are fabulous and current memories.

    Blog text (13)

  • We are planning a family vacation in Wildwood, New Jersey, this summer.

Surface Forms

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Morphology

Wildwood = wild + wood (semi-transparent) = wild + wood

The compound is a straightforward combination of 'wild' + 'wood' meaning an untamed wooded area.

Etymology

Wildwood is simply the two English words wild 'untamed, natural' and wood 'a forest or trees'. That image of a 'wild wood' helps explain why the name is used for places and makes it easy to remember towns like the seaside resort Wildwood in New Jersey.