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 (cmn) (huāngdì)

• Dutch: woestenij (nl) f
• 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
• Swedish: öken (sv), ökenmark (sv)

barren and uninteresting place

• Danish: ødemark (da)
• Finnish: hevonkuusi (fi)
• Russian: ("desert") пустыня (ru) (pustýnja) f, ("swamp") болото (ru) (bolóto) n, ("hole") дыра (ru) (dyrá) f

• Swedish: ödemark (sv) c