Antonyms for desert

Grammar : Adj, noun, verb

Spell : dez-ert

Phonetic Transcription : ˈdɛz ərt

Definition of desert

Origin : "to leave one's duty," late 14c., from Old French deserter (12c.) "leave," literally "undo or sever connection," from Late Latin desertare, frequentative of Latin deserere "to abandon, to leave, forsake, give up, leave in the lurch," from de- "undo" (see de-) + serere "join together, put in a row" (see series). Military sense is first recorded 1640s. Related: Deserted; deserting.

adj barren, uncultivated
noun wasteland; dry area
verb abandon, defect

Example sentences :

De Lord had been with them in six troubles, and he would not desert them in de seventh.
Extract from : « Harriet, The Moses of Her People » by Sarah H. Bradford

Their ancestors, like those of the Jews and the Babylonians, had been a desert folk.
Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon

For many years they lived amidst the trackless hills of the desert.
Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon

To desert a woman was justifiable, under certain circumstances.
Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart

But to desert a woman, and have her apparently not even know it, was against the rules of the game.
Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart

She knows every inch of the mountains, the canyons and the desert.
Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter

He knew no other girl who was master of the secrets of the desert and the canyons and the mountains.
Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter

So they said good-bye to Katy and rolled past Eileen's room on the way to the desert.
Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter

They could not move, because they would have had to desert either the guns or the wounded.
Extract from : « The Story of the Malakand Field Force » by Sir Winston S. Churchill

She had not experimented to an authoritative extent with the desert pickles.
Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter

Synonyms for desert

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