Definitions for desert

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desert des·ert

Spelling: [dez-ert]

IPA: /ˈdɛz ərt/

Desert is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 111 anagrams from letters in desert (deerst).

Definitions for desert

noun

1. a region so arid because of little rainfall that it supports only sparse and widely spaced vegetation or no vegetation at all: Synonyms: waste, wasteland, barren wilderness.
2. any area in which few forms of life can exist because of lack of water, permanent frost, or absence of soil. Synonyms: wasteland, barren wilderness.
3. an area of the ocean in which it is believed no marine life exists.
4. (formerly) any unsettled area between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains thought to be unsuitable for human habitation.
5. any place lacking in something: Synonyms: wasteland.
6. Usually, deserts. reward or punishment that is deserved: Synonyms: due, payment, recompense, reward; justice, retaliation, retribution, penalty.
7. the state or fact of deserving reward or punishment.
8. the state or condition of being worthy, as in character or behavior. Synonyms: merit, virtue, worth.

Idioms

1. get / receive / etc. one's (just) deserts, to be punished or rewarded in a manner appropriate to one's actions or behavior:

adjective

1. of, relating to, or like a desert. Synonyms: desolate; barren, infertile; arid.
2. occurring, living, or flourishing in the desert:
3. designed or suitable for wear in the desert, as cool, protective clothing:

verb (used with object)

1. to leave (a person, place, etc.) without intending to return, especially in violation of a duty, promise, or the like: Synonyms: abandon, leave, quit; forsake.
2. (of military personnel) to leave or run away from (service, duty, etc.) with the intention of never returning:
3. to fail (someone) at a time of need:

verb (used without object)

1. to forsake or leave one's duty, obligations, etc. (sometimes followed by from, to, etc.): Synonyms: abdicate, resign.
2. (of military personnel) to leave service, duty, etc., with no intention of returning: Synonyms: go AWOL.

Origin of desert

1175-1225; Middle English Anglo-French Late Latin dēsertum (neuter), noun use of past participle of Latin dēserere to abandon, forsake, equivalent to dē- de- + serere t

Examples for desert

Normality, domesticity, ease, in the blazing Arizona desert.

Their ancestors, like those of the Jews and the Babylonians, had been a desert folk.

But an ad-supported version of desert Golfing was impossible.

De Lord had been with them in six troubles, and he would not desert them in de seventh.

desert Golfing is the distillation of Angry Birds into its purest essence.

For many years they lived amidst the trackless hills of the desert.

To desert a woman was justifiable, under certain circumstances.

desert Golfing is the gaming equivalent of putting TV on in the background.

But to desert a woman, and have her apparently not even know it, was against the rules of the game.

If life gets in the way, desert Golfing totally understands.