|
English to English noun
| 1 |
(politics) a state of disfavor |  | Example: he led the Democratic party back from the wilderness
source: wordnet30
| 2 |
a wooded region in northeastern Virginia near Spotsylvania where bloody but inconclusive battles were fought in the American Civil War |  | source: wordnet30
| 3 |
a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition |  | Example: it was a wilderness preserved for the hawks and mountaineers
source: wordnet30
| 4 |
a bewildering profusion |  | Example: the duties of citizenship are lost sight of in the wilderness of interests of individuals and groups a wilderness of masts in the harbor
source: wordnet30
| 5 |
A tract of land, or a region, uncultivated and uninhabited by human beings, whether a forest or a wide, barren plain; a wild; a waste; a desert; a pathless waste of any kind. |  | source: webster1913
|