WASTELAND


Meaning of WASTELAND in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

industrial

Five years later the industrial wasteland is a thriving mini-Docklands with homes, offices, roads, Victorian-style bridges and modern services.

Travellers journeying into the town no longer look out on an industrial wasteland the ramshackle legacy of Darlington's past.

urban

Two features of this succession on urban wasteland are particularly interesting.

The metropolis also houses a host of smaller patches of urban wasteland from a few hundred square metres to several hectares.

Down the mean streets of the urban wasteland treads psychiatrist Trevor Turner, looking for the tell-tale signs.

What the mass of urban wasteland needs lies between these extremes.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a barren desert wasteland

Detectives discovered the man's body dumped on wasteland near the railway.

Saturday morning television is still the vast wasteland it was 10 years ago.

The area down by the docks is just a wasteland .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

It is said that the seafloor is a desert, a vast and uniform wasteland , all but devoid of life.

The £35,000 classic was found abandoned on wasteland without a scratch.

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