wasteland

Definition

A place with no remaining resources; a desert.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English wast lond, modification of earlier weste lond, from Old English weste land (“wasteland”); equivalent to waste + land.

Example Sentences

• "Ten years of drought had left the area a wasteland."
• "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"
• "After his experiences, he no longer found western Kansas such a wasteland."

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