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wilderness
1[ wil-der-nis ]
noun
- a wild and uncultivated region, as of forest or desert, uninhabited or inhabited only by wild animals; a tract of wasteland.
- a tract of land officially designated as such and protected by the U.S. government.
- any desolate tract, as of open sea.
- a part of a garden set apart for plants growing with unchecked luxuriance.
- a bewildering mass or collection.
Wilderness
2[ wil-der-nis ]
noun
- a wooded area in NE Virginia: several battles fought here in 1864 between armies of Grant and Lee.
wilderness
1/ ˈwɪldənɪs /
noun
- a wild, uninhabited, and uncultivated region
- any desolate tract or area
- a confused mass or collection
- a voice in the wilderness or a voice crying in the wildernessa person, group, etc, making a suggestion or plea that is ignored
- in the wildernessno longer having influence, recognition, or publicity
Wilderness
2/ ˈwɪldənɪs /
noun
- the Wildernessthe barren regions to the south and east of Palestine, esp those in which the Israelites wandered before entering the Promised Land and in which Christ fasted for 40 days and nights
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They carved a refuge out of the wilderness and then, in 200 years, built it into the most powerful nation on earth.
The original metaphor was: erect a wall to keep the garden of the church free from the wilderness of politics.
Hold the Dark is set in the Alaskan wilderness, in an isolated village at the lip of the tundra.
I went back while Lorne [Michaels] was on his 5-year jaunt in the wilderness, and Ebersol was producing.
In short, the wilderness skills and outdoor abilities that the founding mothers intended.
And it shall devour the mountains, and burn the wilderness, and consume all that is green as with fire.
Never did I feel leaving anybody or any place so much, and Berlin seems to me like a great roaring wilderness.
That made the world a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof, that opened not the prison to his prisoners?
When one thinks in the wilderness, alone, Felipe, many things become clear.
Next day they buried him under the shade of a spreading tree, and left him there—alone in the wilderness.
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