English
Etymology
From waste + land.
Noun
wasteland (plural wastelands)
- A region with no remaining resources; a desert.
- 2007, Kai Hansen, "To Mother Earth", Gamma Ray, Land of the Free II.
Here create another wasteland / On and on 'til nothing's there / Here it comes, the devastation / Poisoning the air
- Ten years of drought had left the area a wasteland.
- Any barren or uninteresting place.
- After his experiences, he no longer found western Kansas such a wasteland.
Translations
region with no remaining resources; desert
- Catalan: erm (ca) m, ermàs (ca), ermot (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 荒地 (zh) (huāngdì)
- Czech: pustina (cs) f
- Dutch: woestenij (nl) f
- Finnish: autiomaa (fi), erämaa (fi), kitumaa (fi)
- French: désert (fr) m, friche (fr) f
- Galician: deserto (gl) m, ermo (gl) m
- German: Ödland (de) n, Wüste (de) f
- Hungarian: sivatag (hu)
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- Icelandic: eyðimörk (is) f, öræfi (is) n pl, auðn (is) f
- Irish: fásach (ga) m
- Japanese: 荒地 (ja) (あれち, arechi)
- Latin: āvia (la) n pl
- Maori: tuakau
- Portuguese: deserto (pt) m
- Russian: пу́стошь (ru) f (pústošʹ), пусты́рь (ru) m (pustýrʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: fàsach m or f
- Spanish: desierto (es) m, yermo (es), páramo (es)
- Swedish: öken (sv), ökenmark
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barren and uninteresting place
