name
Meaning 1
Badlands National Park, a national park in South Dakota.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
badlands
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈbæd.lændz/
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CMU ARPABET: B AE1 D L AE2 N D Z Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
An arid terrain characterized by severe erosion of sedimentary rocks.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: geography, geology, geomorphology, natural-sciences
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: malpais
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
An arid region of Western Canada characterized by significant erosion and odd land formations containing dinosaur and other fossils.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: Alberta; Saskatchewan; Alberta; Saskatchewan
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noun
Meaning 4
an eroded and barren region in southwestern South Dakota and northwestern Nebraska
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Bad Lands
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: geographical area, geographic area, geographical region, geographic region, badlands
noun
Meaning 5
deeply eroded barren land
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: land, ground, soil
Narrower terms: Bad Lands, Badlands
History
Etymology
From earlier Bad Lands, calque of Canadian French mauvaises terres à traverser (“bad lands to cross”), itself a calque of Lakota Makȟóšiča (from makȟá (“land”) + o- (attributive prefix) + šíča (“bad”)).
Across languages
Translations
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: وَعْر (waʕr) — arid terrain with severely eroded sedimentary rocks
- Asturian: ermedá — arid terrain with severely eroded sedimentary rocks
- Asturian: ermu — arid terrain with severely eroded sedimentary rocks
- Catalan: badlands — arid terrain with severely eroded sedimentary rocks
- Danish: badland — arid terrain with severely eroded sedimentary rocks
- Esperanto: badlandoj — arid terrain with severely eroded sedimentary rocks
- Faroese: illlendi — arid terrain with severely eroded sedimentary rocks
- French: Mauvaises Terres — arid terrain with severely eroded sedimentary rocks
- French: badlands — arid terrain with severely eroded sedimentary rocks
- German: Badlands — arid terrain with severely eroded sedimentary rocks
- Irish: drochthailte — arid terrain with severely eroded sedimentary rocks
- Italian: calanco — arid terrain with severely eroded sedimentary rocks
- Korean: 악지 (akji) — arid terrain with severely eroded sedimentary rocks
- Leonese: páramu — arid terrain with severely eroded sedimentary rocks
- Russian: бедленд (bedlend) — arid terrain with severely eroded sedimentary rocks
- Sicilian: malu passu — arid terrain with severely eroded sedimentary rocks
- Sicilian: sciara — arid terrain with severely eroded sedimentary rocks
- Spanish: malpaís — arid terrain with severely eroded sedimentary rocks
- Spanish: tierras baldías — arid terrain with severely eroded sedimentary rocks
- Spanish: badlands — arid terrain with severely eroded sedimentary rocks
- Spanish: tierras yermas — arid terrain with severely eroded sedimentary rocks
- Swedish: badlands — arid terrain with severely eroded sedimentary rocks
- Welsh: garwdiroedd — arid terrain with severely eroded sedimentary rocks