transcription, транскрипция: [ weɪstlænd ]
( wastelands)
1.
A wasteland is an area of land on which not much can grow or which has been spoiled in some way.
The pollution has already turned vast areas into a wasteland.
N-VAR : oft adj N , N of n
2.
If you refer to a place, situation, or period in time as a wasteland , you are criticizing it because you think there is nothing interesting or exciting in it.
...the cultural wasteland of Franco’s repressive rule...
= desert
N-COUNT : oft adj N , N of n [ disapproval ]