What does wasteland mean?

Definitions for wasteland
ˈweɪstˌlændwaste·land

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. barren, waste, wastelandnoun

    an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation

    "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert"

Wiktionary

  1. wastelandnoun

    A region with no remaining resources; a desert.

    Ten years of drought had left the area a wasteland

  2. wastelandnoun

    Any barren or uninteresting place.

    After his experiences, he no longer found western Kansas such a wasteland

Wikipedia

  1. Wasteland

    Wasteland is a single released by alternative metal band 10 Years in 2005. It is their debut single from their first major release, The Autumn Effect. The song reached number one on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart in February 2006 during its twenty-seventh week on the chart, making it one of the slowest-rising number-one singles in the chart's history. It also spent an unprecedented ten weeks at the number two position on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. In December 2017, the RIAA gave "Wasteland" a gold certification for selling 500,000 copies. The song was originally featured on the band's independent second album Killing All That Holds You, produced by Travis Wyrick. The album was eventually reissued with four acoustic tracks. The acoustic tracks were recorded live by Mike D for Lakeside Studios.

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  1. wasteland

    A wasteland is an uninhabited, uncultivated, or barren region that is often desolate, neglected, or devastated. It could refer to a natural landscape like a desert or wilderness, or a man-made scenario like a post-apocalyptic setting, an abandoned city, or a polluted industrial site.

Wikidata

  1. Wasteland

    Wasteland is an American television drama on ABC network created by Kevin Williamson. The show debuted in 1999, a Miramax Films production. Several of the themes explored were college, friendships, romance and homosexuality. It aired only three episodes in October 1999 before ABC canceled it. However Showtime's ShowNext channel aired the 10 remaining episodes in 2001.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of wasteland in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of wasteland in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of wasteland in a Sentence

  1. Benjamin Weiss:

    The most surprising thing that's come out of these images is the potential opportunity to catch the time when Jezero Crater transitioned from an Earth-like habitable environment, to this desolate landscape wasteland we see now, these boulder beds may be records of this transition, and we haven't seen this in other places on Mars.

  2. Simone Borelli:

    I think a good case in point is Seoul, in South Korea -- they actually took out an entire motorway (in the city center) and put the river in there with trees and plants, in Manila, they are establishing miniature parks wherever they can -- crossroads, along the railway, old industrial areas -- there's a lot of urban space that is wasteland, so there are areas that can be converted.

  3. Deshawn Yeldell:

    This world probably sees me as broken and a so-so worthless rejected lifeless tree in a lost wasteland, looked at as many-many hopelessness’s, In God’s eyes, I appeared as this golden tree of life, only the ones free from blindness can see my true reality. -MillYentei D.Y.

  4. Deshawn Yeldell:

    This world probably sees me as broken and a so-so worthless rejected lifeless tree in a lost wasteland, looked at as many-many hopelessness’s, In God’s eyes, I am; appeared as this golden tree of life, only the ones free from blindness can see my true reality. -MillYentei D.Y.

  5. Anthon St Maarten:

    We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined deprivation, while their fellow human beings remain paralyzed by real poverty. We drown in the thick sweetness of our sensual excess, and our shameless opulence, while our discontent souls suffocate in the arid wasteland of spiritual deprivation.

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