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English noun: wilderness | |||
| 1. | wilderness (state) (politics) a state of disfavor | ||
| Samples | He led the Democratic party back from the wilderness. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | disfavor, disfavour | ||
| Domain category | political relation, politics | ||
| 2. | Wilderness (object) a wooded region in northeastern Virginia near Spotsylvania where bloody but inconclusive battles were fought in the American Civil War | ||
| Instance hypernym | forest, timber, timberland, woodland | ||
| Domain region | Old Dominion, Old Dominion State, VA, Virginia | ||
| 3. | wilderness (location) a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition | ||
| Samples | It was a wilderness preserved for the hawks and mountaineers. | ||
| Synonyms | wild | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | geographic area, geographic region, geographical area, geographical region | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | barren, bush, frontier, waste, wasteland | ||
| 4. | wilderness (attribute) a bewildering profusion | ||
| Samples | The duties of citizenship are lost sight of in the wilderness of interests of individuals and groups. A wilderness of masts in the harbor. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | cornucopia, profuseness, profusion, richness | ||
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