Usually means: Untamed natural environment, free, expansive.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. wilderness: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. wilderness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. wilderness: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. wilderness, the Wilderness: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Wilderness, wilderness: Vocabulary.com
  6. Wilderness, wilderness: Wordnik
  7. wilderness: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. wilderness: Wiktionary
  9. wilderness: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. wilderness: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. wilderness: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Wilderness, wilderness: Dictionary.com
  13. wilderness: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. wilderness: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Wilderness: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. wilderness: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. wilderness: Rhymezone
  19. Wilderness: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. wilderness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. wilderness: Free Dictionary
  22. wilderness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. wilderness: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. The Wilderness, Wilderness: Encyclopedia

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  1. The Wilderness, Wilderness: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. wilderness: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Wilderness: Easton Bible

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

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. wilderness: NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL
  2. Glossary of Agricultural Terms, Programs and Laws (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) 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.
noun:  (by extension)
noun:  (countable) A place other than land (for example, the air or sea) that is uncared for, and therefore devoted to disorder or wildness.
noun:  (countable, horticulture) An ornamental part of a garden or park cultivated with trees and often a maze to evoke a natural wilderness.
noun:  (uncountable, obsolete) Unrefinedness; wildness.
noun:  (countable, figuratively)
noun:  Chiefly followed by of: a bewildering flock or throng; a large, often jumbled, collection of things.
noun:  A place or situation that is bewildering and in which one may get lost.
noun:  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.
noun:  A forested region of central Virginia
noun:  The Battle of the Wilderness, 1864, which occurred there.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Spotsylvania County, Orange County, Virginia, United States.

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