Synonyms for wilderness

Grammar : Noun

Spell : wil-der-nis

Phonetic Transcription : ˈwɪl dər nɪs

Top 10 synonyms for wilderness

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Définition of wilderness

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 forest

Example sentences :

"You have wandered long in the wilderness," continued the minister.
Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various

Fretted by the pain, he plunged into the wilderness to hide like a wounded deer.
Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark

And, in spite of these disturbances, business goes on briskly in the market of the wilderness.
Extract from : « Old News » by Nathaniel Hawthorne

And Albany was then almost as much in the wilderness as Caughnawaga.
Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic

I thought that in the wilderness one heard always the night-yelping of the wolves.
Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic

The wilderness stretched its dark shadows to our very thresholds.
Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic

After this, the people removed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of Paran.
Extract from : « Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. I » by Francis Augustus Cox

Who comes hither, among the beasts and dangers of the wilderness?
Extract from : « The Last of the Mohicans » by James Fenimore Cooper

Nay, that foot has no fellow in the wilderness; it will betray her.
Extract from : « The Last of the Mohicans » by James Fenimore Cooper

A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness.
Extract from : « The Devil's Dictionary » by Ambrose Bierce

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