Wilderness

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state inhabited by wild animals and with vegetation growing wild; (countable) a tract of such land; a waste or wild.

   “For ſtill he traueild through wide waſtfull ground, / That nought but deſert wilderneſſe ſhewed all around.”

2. isim A place other than land (for example, the air or sea) that is uncared for, and therefore devoted to disorder or wildness.

   “For now I ſtand as one vpon a rocke, / Inuirond with a wildernes of ſea, / VVho markes the vvaxing tide, grovv vvaue by vvaue, / Expecting euer vvhen ſome enuious ſurge, / VVill in his briniſh bovvels ſvvallow him.”

3. isim An ornamental part of a garden or park cultivated with trees and often a maze to evoke a natural wilderness.

   “And now with nerves new-brac'd and ſpirits chear'd / We tread the wilderneſs, whoſe well-roll'd walks / With curvature of ſlow and eaſy ſweep, / Deception innocent—give ample ſpace / To narrow bounds.”

4. isim Unrefinedness; wildness.

   “What ſhould I thinke, / Heauen ſhield my Mother plaid my Father faire: / For ſuch a warped ſlip of wilderneſſe / Nere iſſu'd from his blood.”

5. isim Chiefly followed by of: a bewildering flock or throng; a large, often jumbled, collection of things.

   “Tuball. One of them ſhewed me a ring that hee had of your daughter for a Monkey. / Shy[lock]. Out vpon her: thou tortur'ſt me Tuball, it was my Turkies, I had it of Leah when I was a Batchellor: I would not haue giuen it for a wilderneſſe of Monkies.”

6. isim A place or situation that is bewildering and in which one may get lost.

   “As I walk'd through the wilderneſs of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a Denn; And I laid me down in that place to ſleep: And as I ſlept I dreamed a Dream.”

7. isim Preceded by in the: a situation of disfavour or lack of recognition; (specifically, politics) of a politician, political party, etc.: a situation of being out of office.
8. özel isim A forested region of central Virginia.
9. özel isim The Battle of the Wilderness, 1864, which occurred there.
10. özel isim An unincorporated community in Spotsylvania County, Orange County, Virginia, United States.