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"t": "hair, wool; ear of corn, grass; forest"
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"3": "*dʰwes-",
"t": "to breathe; breath; soul, spirit; creature"
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"1": "da",
"2": "vildnis",
"t": "wilderness"
},
"expansion": "Danish vildnis (“wilderness”)",
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"1": "de",
"2": "Wildernis"
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"expansion": "German Wildernis",
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"expansion": "Wildnis (“wilderness”)",
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"1": "dum",
"2": "wildernisse",
"t": "wilderness"
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"expansion": "Middle Dutch wildernisse (“wilderness”)",
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},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "wildernis",
"t": "wilderness"
},
"expansion": "Dutch wildernis (“wilderness”)",
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},
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"args": {
"1": "gml",
"2": "wildernisse",
"t": "wilderness"
},
"expansion": "Middle Low German wildernisse (“wilderness”)",
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"args": {
"1": "nds-de",
"2": "Wildernis",
"t": "wilderness"
},
"expansion": "German Low German Wildernis (“wilderness”)",
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"1": "stq",
"2": "Wüüldernis",
"t": "wilderness"
},
"expansion": "Saterland Frisian Wüüldernis (“wilderness”)",
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English wildernes, wildernesse (“uninhabited, uncultivated, or wild territory; desolate land; desert; (figuratively) depopulated or devastated place; state of devastation or ruin; human experience and life”) [and other forms], and then either:\n* from Middle English wilderne (“deserted or uninhabited place, wilderness; land not yet settled”) [and other forms] (from Old English wilddeōren (“savage, wild”); see below) + -nes, -nesse (suffix forming abstract nouns denoting qualities or states); or\n* from Old English *wildēornes, *wilddēornes, probably from wilddēor (“wild animal”) [and other forms] or more likely from wilddēoren (“savage, wild”) (from wilddēor + -en (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘consisting of; material made of’)) + -nes (suffix forming abstract nouns denoting qualities or states).\nWilddēor is derived from wilde (“savage, wild”) (ultimately either from Proto-Indo-European *wel-, *welw- (“hair, wool; ear of corn, grass; forest”), or *gʷʰel- (“wild”)) + dēor (“beast, wild animal”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwes- (“to breathe; breath; soul, spirit; creature”)).\nThe English word is cognate with Danish vildnis (“wilderness”), German Wildernis, Wildnis (“wilderness”), Middle Dutch wildernisse (“wilderness”) (modern Dutch wildernis (“wilderness”)), Middle Low German wildernisse (“wilderness”) (German Low German Wildernis (“wilderness”)), Saterland Frisian Wüüldernis (“wilderness”), West Frisian wyldernis (“wilderness”).\nSense 3.3 (“situation of disfavour or lack of recognition”) is a reference to Numbers 14:32–33 in the Bible (King James Version; spelling modernized): “But as for you, your carcasses, they shall fall in this wilderness. And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness.”",
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"wild‧er‧ness"
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"word": "bush"
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"word": "remote place"
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"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."
],
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"Uncultivated",
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"natural",
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],
[
"state",
"state#Noun"
],
[
"inhabit",
"inhabit"
],
[
"wild",
"wild#Adjective"
],
[
"animal",
"animal"
],
[
"vegetation",
"vegetation"
],
[
"grow",
"grow"
],
[
"tract",
"tract#Noun"
],
[
"waste",
"waste#Noun"
],
[
"wild",
"wild#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(uncountable) 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."
],
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{
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"word": "bushland"
},
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "wasteness"
},
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "wastness"
},
{
"word": "wildland"
},
{
"word": "wilds"
}
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
],
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"_dis1": "82 3 2 0 1 7 5",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "barriyya",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "بَرِّيَّة"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 3 2 0 1 7 5",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "hluš",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "глуш"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 3 2 0 1 7 5",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "pusteča",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "пустэча"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 3 2 0 1 7 5",
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"roman": "dzikaja mjascina",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "дзікая мясціна"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 3 2 0 1 7 5",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "dziki abšar",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "дзікі абшар"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 3 2 0 1 7 5",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pustoš",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "пустош"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 3 2 0 1 7 5",
"code": "csm",
"lang": "Central Sierra Miwok",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"word": "halé·-to-"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 3 2 0 1 7 5",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "huāngyě",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"word": "荒野"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 3 2 0 1 7 5",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "huāngyuán",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"word": "荒原"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 3 2 0 1 7 5",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "divočina"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 3 2 0 1 7 5",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "vildmark"
},
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"_dis1": "82 3 2 0 1 7 5",
"code": "da",
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"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "vildnis"
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"_dis1": "82 3 2 0 1 7 5",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "wildernis"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 3 2 0 1 7 5",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"word": "sovaĝejo"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 3 2 0 1 7 5",
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "villiniland"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 3 2 0 1 7 5",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"word": "erämaa"
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{
"_dis1": "82 3 2 0 1 7 5",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"word": "kaira"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 3 2 0 1 7 5",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"word": "korpi"
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{
"_dis1": "82 3 2 0 1 7 5",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "nature sauvage"
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{
"_dis1": "82 3 2 0 1 7 5",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "région sauvage"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 3 2 0 1 7 5",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "contrée sauvage"
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{
"_dis1": "82 3 2 0 1 7 5",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "monte"
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{
"_dis1": "82 3 2 0 1 7 5",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Wildnis"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 3 2 0 1 7 5",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Wüste"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 3 2 0 1 7 5",
"code": "got",
"lang": "Gothic",
"roman": "auþida",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "𐌰𐌿𐌸𐌹𐌳𐌰"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 3 2 0 1 7 5",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "erimiá",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ερημιά"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 3 2 0 1 7 5",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "érēmos",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ἔρημος"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 3 2 0 1 7 5",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"word": "vadon"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 3 2 0 1 7 5",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "óbyggðir"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 3 2 0 1 7 5",
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"word": "tanah kosong"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 3 2 0 1 7 5",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fiántas"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 3 2 0 1 7 5",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"word": "natura"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 3 2 0 1 7 5",
"alt": "げんや",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "gen'ya",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"word": "原野"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 3 2 0 1 7 5",
"alt": "こうや",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kōya",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"word": "荒野"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 3 2 0 1 7 5",
"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Northern Kurdish",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "berî"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 3 2 0 1 7 5",
"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Northern Kurdish",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "çol"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 3 2 0 1 7 5",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "dēsertum"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 3 2 0 1 7 5",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"plural"
],
"word": "tesqua"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 3 2 0 1 7 5",
"code": "mk",
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},
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"1": "de",
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},
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},
{
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"1": "de",
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},
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"1": "nl",
"2": "wildernis",
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},
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},
{
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"1": "gml",
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"t": "wilderness"
},
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},
{
"args": {
"1": "nds-de",
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"t": "wilderness"
},
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},
{
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"1": "stq",
"2": "Wüüldernis",
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}
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}
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],
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"source": "Thesaurus:wilderness",
"word": "bush"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:wilderness",
"word": "outback"
}
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"source": "Thesaurus:wilderness",
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}
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],
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[
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[
"inhabit",
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[
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[
"animal",
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[
"vegetation",
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],
[
"grow",
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[
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[
"waste",
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],
[
"wild",
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],
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],
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"Australia"
],
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{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
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},
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
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},
{
"word": "wildland"
},
{
"word": "wilds"
}
],
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"uncountable"
]
},
{
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"sea",
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"uncared",
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"devote",
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[
"disorder",
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],
[
"wildness",
"wildness"
]
],
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"(by extension)",
"(countable) A place other than land (for example, the air or sea) that is uncared for, and therefore devoted to disorder or wildness."
],
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]
},
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
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],
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[
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[
"garden",
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[
"park",
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[
"cultivate",
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"trees",
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],
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"maze",
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[
"evoke",
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"(by extension)",
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],
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"agriculture",
"business",
"horticulture",
"lifestyle"
]
},
{
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"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English uncountable nouns"
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],
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"Unrefinedness",
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],
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"(by extension)",
"(uncountable, obsolete) Unrefinedness; wildness."
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"broadly",
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"uncountable"
]
},
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],
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],
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"of",
"of"
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[
"flock",
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],
[
"throng",
"throng#Noun"
],
[
"large",
"large"
],
[
"jumbled",
"jumbled#Adjective"
],
[
"collection",
"collection"
],
[
"thing",
"thing"
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],
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"(countable, figuratively)",
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],
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"countable",
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]
},
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"categories": [
"English countable nouns"
],
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"A place or situation that is bewildering and in which one may get lost."
],
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[
"get lost",
"get lost"
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],
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"(countable, figuratively)",
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]
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"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
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"ref": "2015, Dermot McEvoy, “How Michael Collins Helped Save Winston Churchill’s Career”, in Irish Miscellany: Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Ireland, New York, N.Y.: Skyhorse Publishing",
"text": "After the firm establishment of the Irish Free State, [Winston] Churchill would continue to hold office until the depression. Then, he found himself in the political wilderness. But, unlike [David] Lloyd George, he would not find himself tripping to Berchtesgaden to prostrate himself before Adolf Hitler in admiration. Perhaps he had learned something from Michael Collins—never bend the knee to the tyrant.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"Often preceded by in the: a situation of disfavour or lack of recognition; (specifically, politics) of a politician, political party, etc.: a situation of being out of office."
],
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[
"in",
"in"
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[
"the",
"the"
],
[
"situation",
"situation"
],
[
"disfavour",
"disfavour#Noun"
],
[
"lack",
"lack#Noun"
],
[
"recognition",
"recognition"
],
[
"politics",
"politics"
],
[
"politician",
"politician"
],
[
"political party",
"political party"
],
[
"office",
"office#Noun"
]
],
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"(countable, figuratively)",
"Often preceded by in the: a situation of disfavour or lack of recognition; (specifically, politics) of a politician, political party, etc.: a situation of being out of office."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"figuratively",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈwɪldənəs/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/-nɪs/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈwɪldɚnəs/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
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"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/32/En-us-wilderness.ogg/En-us-wilderness.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/En-us-wilderness.ogg",
"tags": [
"General-American"
],
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}
],
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{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "wildernesse"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:wilderness",
"word": "bushland"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:wilderness",
"tags": [
"in-plural"
],
"word": "wild"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:wilderness",
"word": "wilderness"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:wilderness",
"word": "wildland"
}
],
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{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "barriyya",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "بَرِّيَّة"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "hluš",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "глуш"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "pusteča",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "пустэча"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "dzikaja mjascina",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "дзікая мясціна"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "dziki abšar",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "дзікі абшар"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pustoš",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "пустош"
},
{
"code": "csm",
"lang": "Central Sierra Miwok",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"word": "halé·-to-"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "huāngyě",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"word": "荒野"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "huāngyuán",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"word": "荒原"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "divočina"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "vildmark"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "vildnis"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "wildernis"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"word": "sovaĝejo"
},
{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "villiniland"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"word": "erämaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"word": "kaira"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"word": "korpi"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "nature sauvage"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "région sauvage"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "contrée sauvage"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "monte"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Wildnis"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Wüste"
},
{
"code": "got",
"lang": "Gothic",
"roman": "auþida",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "𐌰𐌿𐌸𐌹𐌳𐌰"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "erimiá",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ερημιά"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "érēmos",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ἔρημος"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"word": "vadon"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "óbyggðir"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"word": "tanah kosong"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fiántas"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"word": "natura"
},
{
"alt": "げんや",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "gen'ya",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"word": "原野"
},
{
"alt": "こうや",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kōya",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"word": "荒野"
},
{
"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Northern Kurdish",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "berî"
},
{
"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Northern Kurdish",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "çol"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "dēsertum"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"plural"
],
"word": "tesqua"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "divina",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "дивина"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"word": "koraha"
},
{
"code": "mer",
"lang": "Meru",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"word": "muitu"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "villnis"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "villmark"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "villnis"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "villmark"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "yaban",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"word": "یابان"
},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Wiltniss"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "dzicz"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"word": "manowce"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "pustkowie"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pustynia"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"word": "mato"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sertão"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "selva"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "vastidão"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "díkaja priróda",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ди́кая приро́да"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "netrónutaja priróda",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "нетро́нутая приро́да"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "celiná",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "целина́"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "glušʹ",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "глушь"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "fàsach"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "divljina"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "descampado"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "jungla"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural",
"singular"
],
"word": "maleza"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "monte"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "naturaleza"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "páramo"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "selva"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tierra salvaje"
},
{
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"class-5",
"class-6"
],
"word": "jangwa"
},
{
"code": "sw",
"lang": "Swahili",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"word": "pori"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "vildmark"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "ödemark"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "obygd"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"word": "bakir alan"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"word": "kır"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"word": "vahşi tabiat"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"word": "yozlak"
},
{
"code": "uga",
"lang": "Ugaritic",
"roman": "mdbr",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"word": "𐎎𐎄𐎁𐎗"
},
{
"code": "zu",
"lang": "Zulu",
"sense": "uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land",
"tags": [
"class-10",
"class-9"
],
"word": "indle"
}
],
"word": "wilderness"
}
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