A desert, a wilderness. Also in figurative context.
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| 释义 | the world > the earth > land > landscape > wild or uncultivated land > [noun] (96) westerneOE A desert, a wilderness. Also in figurative context. weste landOE Wasteland, desert, wilderness; an area of this. wastinea1175 A wild, uncultivated tract of country; a desert region, wilderness. westec1175 A desert, a wasteland; wilderness. wastec1200 Uninhabited (or sparsely inhabited) and uncultivated country; a wild and desolate region, a desert, wilderness. Somewhat rhetorical. wildernc1200 = wilderness, n. wildernessc1200 (without article) Wild or uncultivated land. wildernessc1230 (with article or other defining word) A wild or uncultivated region or tract of land, uninhabited, or inhabited only by wild animals; ‘a tract of… warlottc1290 Some kind of waste or common lands. forestc1320 A wild uncultivated waste, a wilderness. wastyc1325 A desert place. deserta1398 An uninhabited and uncultivated tract of country; a wilderness. formerly applied more widely to any wild, uninhabited region, including forest-land… wastern?a1400 A wilderness. wildnessa1513 Uncultivated state (of a place or region); the character or aspect of such a place or its scenery. Also concrete a wild place, a wilderness (now rare… the wilds of1600 plural. (Chiefly in the wilds of a specified region.) vastness1605 Desolation; waste. Obsolete. rare. vastacy1607 Vastness. roughet1616 A field overgrown with bracken or bushes; a stretch of waste land. Also: a copse. In later use sometimes in the names of such pieces of ground. Cf… wild1637 A wild or waste place; a region or tract of uncultivated and uninhabited land; a waste, a wilderness. Now mostly rhetorical or poetic. wildland1686 Land in a natural or uncultivated state (also in plural in same sense). Also: a region or tract of such land. bush1780 (Recent, and probably a direct adoption of the Dutch bosch, in colonies originally Dutch.) Woodland, country more or less covered with natural wood… wastage1823 Scottish. A ruined or deserted place; also, a waste piece of ground. mesquite1834 Country dominated by mesquite trees; a thicket of mesquite trees. wasteland1887 Land in its natural, uncultivated state. Also attributive. mulga1896 With the. Land covered with mulga trees; remote or sparsely populated land; the outback. virgin bush1905 bush land not brought under cultivation. boondock1944 Rough country; jungle; an isolated or wild region. Usually in plural. Also attributive. boonies1954 With the. The jungle; wild or rough country; (hence) a remote or unpopulated area; = boondock, n. virgin land1955 previously uncultivated land, spec. in Western Siberia and Kazakhstan, land made the subject of an intensive agricultural programme by the Soviet… Subcategories:— piece of (3) — quality of (6) — specific (7) — made waste (4) — underdeveloped land (2) — moor or heath (8) — barren land or desert (37) |
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