WILDERNESS
Dictionary entry overview: What does Wilderness mean?
• WILDERNESS (noun)
The noun WILDERNESS has 4 senses:
1. (politics) a state of disfavor
2. a wooded region in northeastern Virginia near Spotsylvania where inconclusive battles were fought in the American Civil War
3. a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition
4. a bewildering profusion
Familiarity information: WILDERNESS used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• WILDERNESS (noun)
Meaning:
(politics) a state of disfavor
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Context example:
he led the Democratic party back from the wilderness
Hypernyms ("wilderness" is a kind of...):
disfavor; disfavour (the state of being out of favor)
Domain category:
political relation; politics (social relations involving authority or power)
Meaning:
A wooded region in northeastern Virginia near Spotsylvania where inconclusive battles were fought in the American Civil War
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
forest; wood; woods (the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area)
Holonyms ("Wilderness" is a part of...):
Old Dominion; Old Dominion State; VA; Virginia (a state in the eastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies; one of the Confederate States in the American Civil War)
Meaning:
A wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
wild; wilderness
Context example:
it was a wilderness preserved for the hawks and mountaineers
Hypernyms ("wilderness" is a kind of...):
geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wilderness"):
barren; waste; wasteland (an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation)
bush (a large wilderness area)
frontier (a wilderness at the edge of a settled area of a country)
Meaning:
A bewildering profusion
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Context examples:
the duties of citizenship are lost sight of in the wilderness of interests of individuals and groups / a wilderness of masts in the harbor
Hypernyms ("wilderness" is a kind of...):
cornucopia; profuseness; profusion; richness (the property of being extremely abundant)
