deadland
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The afterlife, especially in belief systems that do not include reward or punishment such as heaven and hell.
Example Sentences
- "After the feverish days over deadland trails, — The repose of the gray-veiled and quiet-eyed twilight, The shimmering haze of the blue mountain valley, And the tranquil blue deep of the pool"
- "To return to the deadland of desolation and desert, to choke in its dust, to be lashed in the face with its wind, to feel a loneliness of time and space, a loneliness of emptiness, […]"
- "He runs out of gas, and back on the ground meets up with a girl who is motoring through the deadland to meet her boss in Phoenix for some obscure technocratic purpose."
- "Within that deadland lies Kurash Qwellinir, the Shattered Hills."
- "These must be the real deadlands. Here, there is no new growth to camouflage what the wars have done."
- "Does the hideous famine that gnaws the entrails with fiery fangs and burns up the wrenched and tortured tissues till the land sickens with its burden of deadland dying—does that show His pity?"