Antonyms for wildernesses

Grammar : Noun

Spell : wil-der-nis

Phonetic Transcription : ˈwɪl dər nɪs

Definition of wildernesses

Origin : c.1200, from Old English wildeoren "wild, savage," from wildern (adj.) "wild, savage" (from wilde "wild;" see wild (adj.) + deor "animal;" see deer) + -ness. Cf. Dutch wildernis, German Wildernis, though the usual form is Wildnis.

noun uninhabited area
noun forest

Example sentences :

Were all wildernesses like it, to live in a wilderness would be better than to live in a city.
Extract from : « Mexico and its Religion » by Robert A. Wilson

The wildernesses about, that had grown to brushwood, were cleared away.
Extract from : « A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia » by Amanda Minnie Douglas

The evil of Papacy had not reached them at once in their wildernesses.
Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69, No. 425, March, 1851 » by Various

I am most truly glad to see a countryman of his in these Gothic wildernesses.
Extract from : « The Bible in Spain » by George Borrow

He had, in the days of long ago, fished in the Adirondack wildernesses.
Extract from : « Darkness and Dawn » by George Allan England

The ostrich makes its home in the African plains and wildernesses.
Extract from : « The World and Its People: Book VII » by Anna B. Badlam

He is a great scene-painter of wildernesses and lawless places, indeed.
Extract from : « Old and New Masters » by Robert Lynd

Live and let live is clearly not the maxim taught in these wildernesses.
Extract from : « The Crime Against Europe » by Roger Casement

There are boats on the lake and shady depths and wildernesses of pine-wood.
Extract from : « Ann Veronica » by H. G. Wells

Wildernesses they certainly are, the whole country being but an interminable forest.
Extract from : « The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. III: Acadia, 1611-1616 » by Various

Synonyms for wildernesses

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