Betekenis van:
wilderness

wilderness
Zelfstandig naamwoord
  • ontoegankelijk, onherbergzaam gebied op aarde, vrij van menselijk ingrijpen
  • a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition
"it was a wilderness preserved for the hawks and mountaineers"

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Hyponiemen

wilderness
Zelfstandig naamwoord
    • a bewildering profusion
    "the duties of citizenship are lost sight of in the wilderness of interests of individuals and groups"
    "a wilderness of masts in the harbor"

    Hyperoniemen

    wilderness
    Zelfstandig naamwoord
      • (politics) a state of disfavor
      "he led the Democratic party back from the wilderness"

      Hyperoniemen

      wilderness
      Zelfstandig naamwoord
        • a wooded region in northeastern Virginia near Spotsylvania where bloody but inconclusive battles were fought in the American Civil War

        Voorbeeldzinnen

        1. Cultivate the wilderness.
        2. He believed in protecting America's wilderness areas.
        3. The newcomers cultivated the immense wilderness.
        4. Could you survive alone in the wilderness?
        5. The garden is turning into a wilderness.
        6. He believed in protecting the United States' wilderness areas.
        7. Hunting game is forbidden in this tranquil wilderness.
        8. Can you hike for days in the wilderness without seeing anyone?
        9. The day before yesterday he witnessed a weird incident in the wilderness.
        10. They wandered in the wilderness for forty years, and it was a different generation that entered the Promised Land and celebrated Tabernacles.
        11. In the wild wilderness, a leopard mother caresses her cub, as Hagar did Ishmael; or a queen of France the dauphin.