wasteland
/ˈweɪs(t)ˌlænd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.19 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any barren or uninteresting place.
noun
Example Sentences
- "Ten years of drought had left the area a wasteland."
- "2007, Kai Hansen, "To Mother Earth", Gamma Ray, Land of the Free II. Here create another wasteland / On and on 'til nothing's there / Here it comes, the devastation / Poisoning the air"
- "After his experiences, he no longer found western Kansas such a wasteland."
- "Keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland."
- "Another place where, from the aesthetic point of view, a long tunnel would have been a real blessing, is East London as viewed from the carriage window on the old Great Eastern line. Despite a vast change from crowded slums to tracts of wasteland, due to its grim wartime experience, this approach still provides a shabby and unworthy introduction to the great capital."
- "How many nuclear missiles would have to be launched at the United States to turn it into a complete wasteland?"
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English wast lond, modification of earlier weste lond, from Old English weste land (“wasteland”); equivalent to waste + land.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈweɪs(t)ˌlænd/
- British English: /ˈweɪs(t)ˌland/