wilderness
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3.8
- noun
- /ˈwɪldərnəs/
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- I was excited about the prospect of working in the Alaskan wilderness and comparing how different people.
- a wilderness area
- pristine wilderness
- parks and wilderness
Like, you know, carnivorous trees that roam the wilderness by the thousands.
- Like, you know, carnivorous trees that roam the wilderness by the thousands.
- I need to be in the wilderness and it's great.
- What is the sojourn in the wilderness and can you skip it?
- In Germany and all you did was learn wilderness survival.
- It's, I remember the first time I heard the sound of wilderness.
- And I ran off into the wilderness, really.
- And they said we're going to turn Luzon province into a howling wilderness.
- If you haven't seen it, it's it's about a a girls soccer team stranded in the wilderness after their plane crashes.
Examples
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You see, the Northern Territory is wilderness.
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He and his family were on a road trip, went off road in the northern wilderness, became trapped.
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I need to be in the wilderness and it's great.
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And I spent a lot of time in the wilderness on a, you know, on a farm.
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In the end the girl end the boy run away together into the wilderness, never to be heard from again.
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Learn from my father in the wilderness above Los Angeles.
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Well, I grew up on the very northwest tip of Vancouver Island in a completely remote wilderness area with no road to it.
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I've had that same experience, you know, camping and being in the wilderness and seeing the stars.
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Trudging through the wilderness, no sign of civilization anywhere.
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During summer, we often hike through the wilderness to enjoy the untouched nature.
Synonyms
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2.8
An area of land that is natural and not changed by people
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2.6
Land with many trees and bushes, not a deep forest
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6.2
A wild area far from towns and roads, like a mountain
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8.4
A remote forest area far from towns and roads
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5.5
An area of land left in its natural state and not built on
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5.6
A forest with many old trees that is not changed by people
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2.8
Land that has many trees or is kept to grow trees
A thick natural forest left alone by people
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
A series of 1864 Civil War battles between Grant and Lee fought in thick forest with heavy losses
How Natural
Surface Forms
Morphology
wilderness = wilder (semi-transparent) = wild + er + ness
The base 'wilder' is not a commonly used word, making the derivation less obvious.
Etymology
Wilderness comes from old English parts wild meaning 'untamed' and -ness meaning 'a state'. It was first used for land where animals and plants live without people, so wilderness now means a natural, uninhabited area.