Значение "wasteland" в словаре английского

wasteland в английском

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wastelandnoun

uk /ˈweɪst.lænd/ us /ˈweɪst.lænd/

[ C or U ] an empty area of land, especially in or near a city, that is not used to grow crops or built on, or used in any way:

The car was dumped in a stretch of wasteland in the south of the city.

[ S ] literary disapproving a place, time, or situation that does not contain or produce anything positive, or that is completely without a particular quality or activity:

the spiritual wasteland of the 1980s

(Определение wasteland из Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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wastelandnoun [ C ]

us /ˈweɪstˌlænd/

a large area of land that has not been developed, usually because it cannot be easily used:

Rain forests are being transformed into barren wasteland.

A wasteland can also be anything that seems to lack positive qualities:

Television is a vast wasteland.

(Определение wasteland из Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)