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mainly US It's a wilderness area, under the protection of the Parks Department.
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Meaning of wilderness in English
(Definition of wilderness from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
wilderness | American Dictionary
wilderness | Business English
in the wilderness
Examples of wilderness
wilderness
We do not want islands of biodiversity separated by wildernesses of intensive farming or abandoned land.
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They are not empty wildernesses as they are in so many other countries.
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The areas are in danger of becoming mere wildernesses, devoid of people even to provide the basic services which visitors expect.
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Unless extra encouragement is given, those areas in many cases will be neglected, not planted, and will become wildernesses for years to come.
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I agree that it is important to get bikes off mountains and away from natural wildernesses, and on to our streets.
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He spent two decades in the political wilderness.
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The siting and placing of the works varies a great deal, from private to public, urban to desert, coastal to wilderness.
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Rock climbing is discouraged because the wilderness's sandstone cliffs are friable and crumbly.
In addition to wilderness and civilization these included poor and rich, male and female, young and old, and so on.
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The lab has and continues to reveal how alternative institutions affect the wilderness within.
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They needed some popular measures to get reelected in 1892; otherwise they faced a long-term political wilderness.
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Perhaps it is the result of long periods in the wilderness, when mainstream linguists - particularly computational linguists laughed at their efforts.
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All three wildernesses total 1,535,352 acres (6,070 km).
The earth was a wilderness (?), nothing had been built there [previously].
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In fact, villagers make a clear distinction in everyday language between inhabited space (the limbo and its fields) and the surrounding wilderness (musenge).
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Collocations with wilderness
wilderness
These are words often used in combination with wilderness.
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designated wilderness
The long trails are mostly in designated wilderness areas.
protected wilderness
National parks should be protected, but, at the same time, should be developed for people to live in and work the land; we should not have simply a protected wilderness.
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remote wilderness
It may be dangerous patrolling remote wilderness areas in the mountains and/or desert, sometimes alone.
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Translations of wilderness
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रानटी, निर्मनुष्य आणि ओसाड प्रदेश, बाहेरचा भाग जिथे रोपांना कसेही वेडेवाकडे वाढू दिले जाते…
vahşi orman, el değmemiş tabiat, yaban…
nature [feminine] sauvage, lieux sauvages…
荒野（こうや）…
wildernis…
பயிர்களை வளர்க்க பயன்படுத்தப்படாத அல்லது நகரங்கள் மற்றும் சாலைகள் கட்டப்பட்ட நிலத்தின் ஒரு பகுதி, குறிப்பாக அதன் மிகவும் குளிர்ந்த அல்லது வெப்பமான வானிலை அல்லது மோசமான பூமியின் விளைவாக வாழ்வது கடினம்., தாவரங்கள் இயற்கையாகவோ அல்லது அசாதாரணமாகவோ வளர விடப்படும் வெளிப்புறப் பகுதி…
उजाड़ और बंजर क्षेत्र, बीहड़ क्षेत्र, अत्यधिक ठंड…
વેરાન, નિર્જન, વન્ય પ્રદેશ…
ørken, ødemark…
vildmark, ödemark…
tanah gersang atau tidak berpenghuni…
die Wildnis…
villmark [masculine-feminine], ødemark, ørken…
صحرا, بیاباں, اجاڑ…
пустеля, дика місцевість…
дикая местность…
పంటలు పండించడానికి ఉపయోగించని లేదా దానిపై పట్టణాలు మరియు రోడ్లు నిర్మించబడని భూభాగం, ప్రత్యేకించి దాని అత్యంత చల్లని లేదా వేడి వాతావరణం లేదా చెడు భూమి ఫలితంగా అక్కడ జీవించడం కష్టం., మొక్కలు సహజంగా లేదా ఇష్టం వచ్చినట్టుగా పెరగడానికి వదిలివేయబడిన బయటి ప్రాంతం…
মরুভূমি, ঊষর ভূমি, জঙ্গল এলাকা…
pustina, divočina…
padang belantara…
บริเวณรกร้างว่างเปล่า…
vùng hoang vu…
dzicz, pustynia, puszcza…
