wasteland

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈweɪs(t)ˌland/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈweɪs(t)ˌlənd/
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• General-American: /ˈweɪs(t)ˌlænd/
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• General-American: /ˈweɪs(t)ˌlənd/
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• New-Zealand: /ˈwæes(t)ˌlɛnd/
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• New-Zealand: /ˈwæes(t)ˌlɘnd/
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• CMU ARPABET: W EY1 S T L AE2 N D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Inherited from Middle English wast lond, modification of earlier weste lond, from Old English weste land (“wasteland”); equivalent to waste + land.

118 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: djerrinë — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Albanian: qezëm — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Arabic: أَرْض خَرَاب (ʔarḍ ḵarāb) — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Belarusian: пу́стка (pústka) — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Belarusian: пустэ́ча (pustéča) — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Belarusian: пусты́р (pustýr) — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Bulgarian: пу́стош (pústoš) — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Catalan: erm — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Catalan: ermàs — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Catalan: ermot — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Chinese Mandarin: 荒地 (huāngdì) — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Chinese Mandarin: 廢土 /废土 (fèitǔ) — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Czech: pustina — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Czech: poušť — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Danish: ødemark — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Dutch: woestenij — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Esperanto: dezerto — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Esperanto: senkultivejo — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Estonian: tühermaa — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Estonian: kõnnumaa — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Faroese: oyðimørk — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Faroese: oyðiland — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Finnish: autiomaa — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Finnish: erämaa — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Finnish: kitumaa — region with no remaining resources; desert
• French: désert — region with no remaining resources; desert
• French: friche — region with no remaining resources; desert
• French: steppe — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Galician: deserto — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Galician: ermo — region with no remaining resources; desert
• German: Ödland — region with no remaining resources; desert
• German: Wüste — region with no remaining resources; desert
• German: Wüstenlandschaft — region with no remaining resources; desert
• German: Wüstenei — region with no remaining resources; desert
• German: Ödnis — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Hebrew: ישימון (yeshimon) — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Hindi: बंजर (bañjar) — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Hindi: मरुस्थल (marusthal) — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Hungarian: sivatag — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Icelandic: eyðimörk — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Icelandic: öræfi — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Icelandic: auðn — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Irish: fásach — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Italian: terreno brullo — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Italian: brughiera — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Japanese: 荒地 (arechi) — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Korean: 황무지 (hwangmuji) — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Korean: 황지 (hwangji) — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Latin: āvia — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Latin: vastitas — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Latvian: tuksneša zeme — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Lithuanian: dykynė — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Macedonian: пу́стош (pústoš) — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Macedonian: пусте́лија (pustélija) — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Māori: tuakau — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Marshallese: jem̧aden — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Marshallese: āne-jem̧aden — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Ndonga: ombuga class 9 — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Norwegian Bokmål: ødemark — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Norwegian Bokmål: øydemark — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Occitan: èrm — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Occitan: ermàs — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Old English: hæþ — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Polish: pustkowie — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Portuguese: deserto — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Portuguese: terreno baldio — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Portuguese: charneca — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Russian: пу́стошь (pústošʹ) — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Russian: пусты́рь (pustýrʹ) — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Scottish Gaelic: fàsach — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Serbo-Croatian: pustoš — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Slovak: pustatina — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Slovak: púšť — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Spanish: desierto — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Spanish: yermo — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Spanish: páramo — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Spanish: baldío — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Spanish: terreno baldío — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Spanish: barbecho — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Spanish: barbechera — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Swedish: öken — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Swedish: ökenmark — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Turkish: çöl — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Turkish: çoraklık — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Ottoman Turkish: چول (çöl) — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Ukrainian: пу́стище (pústyšče) — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Ukrainian: пу́стка (pústka) — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Ukrainian: пустовщи́на (pustovščýna) — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Ukrainian: пусти́р (pustýr) — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Ukrainian: пустири́ще (pustyrýšče) — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Welsh: diffaith — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Welsh: diffeithdir — region with no remaining resources; desert
• Catalan: ermot — barren and uninteresting place
• Catalan: erm — barren and uninteresting place
• Catalan: ermàs — barren and uninteresting place
• Chinese Mandarin: 單調的地方 /单调的地方 (dāndiào de dìfang) — barren and uninteresting place
• Czech: pustina — barren and uninteresting place
• Danish: ødemark — barren and uninteresting place
• Faroese: oyðilendi — barren and uninteresting place
• Finnish: joutomaa — barren and uninteresting place
• German: Ödnis — barren and uninteresting place
• German: öde Gegend — barren and uninteresting place
• Hindi: बीहड़ (bīhaṛ) — barren and uninteresting place
• Hungarian: (kietlen) pusztaság — barren and uninteresting place
• Icelandic: eyðimörk — barren and uninteresting place
• Icelandic: öræfi — barren and uninteresting place
• Icelandic: auðn — barren and uninteresting place
• Macedonian: пу́стина (pústina) — barren and uninteresting place
• Macedonian: пусте́лија (pustélija) — barren and uninteresting place
• Māori: tuakau — barren and uninteresting place
• Marshallese: oļōt — barren and uninteresting place
• Russian: пусты́ня (pustýnja) — barren and uninteresting place
• Russian: боло́то (bolóto) — barren and uninteresting place
• Russian: дыра́ (dyrá) — barren and uninteresting place
• Swedish: ödemark — barren and uninteresting place
• Telugu: బంజరు (bañjaru) — barren and uninteresting place
• Finnish: tuhoalue — devastated area
• Marshallese: jem̧aden — devastated area