Definitions for Wilderness

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Wilderness wil·der·ness

Spelling: [wil-der-nis]

IPA: /ˈwɪl dər nɪs/

Wilderness is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 535 anagrams from letters in Wilderness (deeilnrssw).

Definitions for Wilderness

noun

1. a wild and uncultivated region, as of forest or desert, uninhabited or inhabited only by wild animals; a tract of wasteland.
2. a tract of land officially designated as such and protected by the U.S. government.
3. any desolate tract, as of open sea.
4. a part of a garden set apart for plants growing with unchecked luxuriance.
5. a bewildering mass or collection.
6. a wooded area in NE Virginia: several battles fought here in 1864 between armies of Grant and Lee.

Origin of Wilderness

1150-1200; Middle English; Old English *wil(d)dēornes, equivalent to either wil(d)dēor wild beast (see wild, deer) + -nes Examples for Wilderness

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.

In short, the wilderness skills and outdoor abilities that the founding mothers intended.

They carved a refuge out of the wilderness and then, in 200 years, built it into the most powerful nation on earth.

Fretted by the pain, he plunged into the wilderness to hide like a wounded deer.

I went back while Lorne [Michaels] was on his 5-year jaunt in the wilderness, and Ebersol was producing.

And, in spite of these disturbances, business goes on briskly in the market of the wilderness.

"You have wandered long in the wilderness," continued the minister.

The wilderness stretched its dark shadows to our very thresholds.

And Albany was then almost as much in the wilderness as Caughnawaga.