Definitions for wasteland
ˈweɪstˌlændwaste·land

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1. barren, waste, wastelandnoun

   an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation

   "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert"

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1. wastelandnoun

   A region with no remaining resources; a desert.

   Ten years of drought had left the area a wasteland

2. wastelandnoun

   Any barren or uninteresting place.

   After his experiences, he no longer found western Kansas such a wasteland

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1. Wasteland

   Wasteland is a single released by alternative metal band 10 Years in 2005. It is their debut single from their first major release, The Autumn Effect. The song reached number one on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart in February 2006 during its twenty-seventh week on the chart, making it one of the slowest-rising number-one singles in the chart's history. It also spent an unprecedented ten weeks at the number two position on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. In December 2017, the RIAA gave "Wasteland" a gold certification for selling 500,000 copies. The song was originally featured on the band's independent second album Killing All That Holds You, produced by Travis Wyrick. The album was eventually reissued with four acoustic tracks. The acoustic tracks were recorded live by Mike D for Lakeside Studios.

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1. wasteland

   A wasteland is an uninhabited, uncultivated, or barren region that is often desolate, neglected, or devastated. It could refer to a natural landscape like a desert or wilderness, or a man-made scenario like a post-apocalyptic setting, an abandoned city, or a polluted industrial site.

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1. Wasteland

   Wasteland is an American television drama on ABC network created by Kevin Williamson. The show debuted in 1999, a Miramax Films production. Several of the themes explored were college, friendships, romance and homosexuality. It aired only three episodes in October 1999 before ABC canceled it. However Showtime's ShowNext channel aired the 10 remaining episodes in 2001.

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1. wasteland

   Song lyrics by wasteland -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by wasteland on the Lyrics.com website.

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1. • Wilderness

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of wasteland in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of wasteland in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of wasteland in a Sentence

1. Deshawn Yeldell:

   This world probably sees me as broken and a so-so worthless rejected lifeless tree in a lost wasteland, looked at as many-many hopelessness’s, In God’s eyes, I appeared as this golden tree of life, only the ones free from blindness can see my true reality. -MillYentei D.Y.

2. Craig McClain:

   Near the wreckage and wellhead, many of the animals characteristic of other areas of the deep Gulf of Mexico, including sea cucumbers, giant isopods, glass sponges and whip corals, were absent, what we observed was a homogenous wasteland, in great contrast to the rich heterogeneity of life seen in a healthy deep sea.

3. Eduard Basurin:

   Eighty percent of Debaltseve is already ours, a cleanup of the town is under way.Kiev's military denied the town, which had a peacetime population of 25,000 but is now a bombed-out wasteland, had fallen but acknowledged losing control of some of it. Some Ukrainian soldiers had been captured, it said, but denied rebel reports that up to 300 had surrendered or been taken prisoner. Kiev and NATO say the rebel military operation to take Debaltseve is being carried out with the assistance of tanks, artillery and soldiers from Russia's army. Moscow denies that it has sent its forces to participate in battle for territory that President Vladimir Putin has referred to as.

4. Director George Miller:

   I'm just not recovered enough to get into it, but you know these characters live in your head and we've got a lot of back stories and if we have time again to go out into the wasteland there are other films we will want to do. Yes, so that's the answer I can give at this moment now -- I've just come out of labour.

5. Deshawn Yeldell:

   This world probably sees me as broken and a so-so worthless rejected lifeless tree in a lost wasteland, looked at as many-many hopelessness’s, In God’s eyes, I am; appeared as this golden tree of life, only the ones free from blindness can see my true reality. -MillYentei D.Y.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=wasteland
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wasteland
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasteland
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=wasteland
6. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=wasteland