Associations to the word «Wasteland»

Wiktionary

WASTELAND, noun. A region with no remaining resources; a desert.
WASTELAND, noun. Any barren or uninteresting place.

Dictionary definition

WASTELAND, noun. An uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats