Usually means: Barren, desolate area; devoid life.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word wasteland:

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  1. wasteland: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. wasteland: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. wasteland: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. wasteland: Collins English Dictionary
  5. wasteland: Vocabulary.com
  6. Wasteland, wasteland: Wordnik
  7. wasteland: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. wasteland: Wiktionary
  9. wasteland: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. wasteland: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. wasteland: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. wasteland: Dictionary.com
  13. wasteland: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  15. wasteland: Rhymezone
  16. wasteland: Free Dictionary
  17. wasteland: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. wasteland: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. Wasteland (comics), wasteland: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Wasteland: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wasteland: Canadian Soil Information System

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A place with no remaining resources; a desert.
noun:  Any barren or uninteresting place.
noun:  A devastated, uninhabitable area.
noun:  Unused land.

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