wasteland

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

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

For two days they drifted over this horrid wasteland. — The Chessmen of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs
At the foot of the hill lay wasteland over which a few groups of our Cossack scouts were moving. — War and Peace, Leo, graf Tolstoy
The Magellan lifted back into the sky, then moved out over the ocher wasteland that was the barren desert of the red planet. — The Secret of the Ninth Planet, Donald A. Wollheim

barren, waste

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