OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 21292

wilderness

/ˈwɪldənəs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
descampado • jungla • maleza • monte • naturaleza • páramo • selva • tierra salvaje
Uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state inhabited by wild animals and with vegetation growing wild; (countable) a tract of such land; a waste or wild.
Here they ascended, and anon appeared to descend in the same direction, finding only boundless wildernesses, and varied combinations of tangled woodland scenery.
Miss Bennet, there seemed to be a prettyish kind of a little wilderness on one side of your lawn. I should be glad to take a turn in it, if you will favour me with your company.