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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
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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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