wasteland

English

Etymology

From waste +‎ land.

Noun

wasteland (plural wastelands)

A region with no remaining resources; a desert.
- 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
Ten years of drought had left the area a wasteland.
Any barren or uninteresting place.
After his experiences, he no longer found western Kansas such a wasteland.

Translations

region with no remaining resources; desert

Catalan: erm (ca) m, ermàs (ca), ermot (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 荒地 (zh) (huāngdì)
Czech: pustina (cs) f
Dutch: woestenij (nl) f
Finnish: autiomaa (fi), erämaa (fi), kitumaa (fi)
French: désert (fr) m, friche (fr) f
Galician: deserto (gl) m, ermo (gl) m
German: Ödland (de) n, Wüste (de) f
Hungarian: sivatag (hu)

Icelandic: eyðimörk (is) f, öræfi (is) n pl, auðn (is) f
Irish: fásach (ga) m
Japanese: 荒地 (ja) (あれち, arechi)
Latin: āvia (la) n pl
Maori: tuakau
Portuguese: deserto (pt) m
Russian: пу́стошь (ru) f (pústošʹ), пусты́рь (ru) m (pustýrʹ)
Scottish Gaelic: fàsach m or f
Spanish: desierto (es) m, yermo (es), páramo (es)
Swedish: öken (sv), ökenmark

barren and uninteresting place

Chinese:
Mandarin: 單調的地方, 单调的地方 (dāndiào de dìfang)
Czech: pustina (cs) f
Danish: ødemark
Finnish: joutomaa (fi)
German: Ödnis (de) f
Hungarian: (kietlen) pusztaság (hu)

Icelandic: eyðimörk (is) f, öræfi (is) n pl, auðn (is) f
Maori: tuakau
Russian: ("desert") пусты́ня (ru) f (pustýnja), ("swamp") боло́то (ru) n (bolóto), ("hole") дыра́ (ru) f (dyrá)
Swedish: ödemark (sv) c
Telugu: బంజరు (te) (bañjaru)

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