wasteland

Betekenis (Engels)

1. A place with no remaining resources; a desert.
2. Any barren or uninteresting place.
3. A devastated, uninhabitable area.
4. Unused land.

Sinonieme

wilderness

desert

🏜️

waste

barren

desolate place

heath

barren land

waste ground

moor

wild land

fallow

badlands

wild

waste plot

moorland

area overgrown with weeds

deserted place

airidity

uncultivated ground

uncultivated plot

vacant ground

left over area

backwoods

wasteground

derelict land

downs

dryness

field

plain

prairie

sand

sterile

weald

outspent

wilds

vacant land

deserted land

vast plain

Vertalings

Ödland

Wüste

🏜️

désert

🏜️

deserto

🏜️

woestenij

desierto

🏜️

deserto

terrain vague

Einöde

Wildnis

friche

desert

🏜️

Öde

friche urbaine

arena

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈweɪs(t)ˌland/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: wast lond

Geërf van Old English: weste land

In summary

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