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Word entry · 9 letters

wasteland

Best crossword clue

"Barren area"

9 letters · collected on this word page

9 lettersPronunciation /ˈweɪs(t)ˌland/Part of speech nounSorted aadelnstwStarts with WEnds with D1 cluesCommon crossword word
1W2A3S4T5E6L7A8N9D

Definitions

  1. an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • 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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