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wasteland

noun
/ˈweɪs(t)ˌland/UK/ˈweɪs(t)ˌlænd/US/ˈwæes(t)ˌlɛnd/

Etymology

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

  1. inherited from weste land — “wasteland”
  2. inherited from wast lond

Definitions

  1. A place with no remaining resources

    A place with no remaining resources; a desert.

    • 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

  2. Any barren or uninteresting place.

    • After his experiences, he no longer found western Kansas such a wasteland.
    • Keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland.

  3. A devastated, uninhabitable area.

    • How many nuclear missiles would have to be launched at the United States to turn it into a complete wasteland?
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Unused land.

      • Azaz and Ray were nominated individually for what, at first glance, looked like a project to transform wasteland at South Tottenham station into a community garden.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at wasteland. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01wasteland02devastated03ravaged04ravage05waste

A definitional loop anchored at wasteland. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at wasteland

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA