wasteland

English

Etymology

waste +‎ land

Noun

wasteland (plural wastelands)

1. A region with no remaining resources; a desert.

   Ten years of drought had left the area a wasteland

2. Any barren or uninteresting place.

   After his experiences, he no longer found western Kansas such a wasteland

Translations

region with no remaining resources; desert

Chinese: Mandarin: 荒地 (zh) (huāngdì) Finnish: autiomaa (fi), erämaa (fi) French: désert (fr) m. German: Ödland (de) n., Wüste (de) f. Icelandic: eyðimörk (is) f.

Japanese: 荒れ地 (ja) (あれち, arechi), (also spelled) 荒地 (ja) Portuguese: deserto (pt) m. Russian: пустошь (ru) (pústoš’) f., пустырь (ru) (pustýr') m. Scottish Gaelic: fàsach (gd) m. and f. Spanish: desierto (es) m.

barren and uninteresting place

Finnish: hevonkuusi (fi)

Russian: ("desert") пустыня (ru) (pustýnja) f., ("swamp") болото (ru) (bolóto) n., ("hole") дыра (ru) (dyrá) f.