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# wilderness

«wilderness» in Mova's school dictionary: **a wild area of land that people have not changed, with no…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a wilderness, wildernesses; the wilderness)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A wilderness is a wild area of land that people have not changed, with no towns, farms or roads. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wilderness/#m1)

2) (Bible) The wilderness is the desert where, the Bible says, the Israelites wandered for forty years and Jesus fasted for forty days. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wilderness/#m2)

3) In the wilderness (idiom): left out, without power or importance for a time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wilderness/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and science lessons wildernesses include forests, mountains and deserts where animals live freely; national parks protect them. In religious education, Lent remembers Jesus' forty days in the wilderness. In stories, characters get lost in the wilderness and must survive. Phrases: «in the wilderness», «wilderness area», «a voice crying in the wilderness».

### examples

- Bears live deep in the Canadian wilderness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wilderness/#x1)
- The explorers crossed the frozen wilderness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wilderness/#x2)
- Moses led the people through the wilderness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wilderness/#x3)
- Jesus spent forty days in the wilderness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wilderness/#x4)
- Our garden became a wilderness when nobody weeded it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wilderness/#x5)
- The team spent years in the wilderness before winning again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wilderness/#x6)
- A wilderness guide taught us to read a compass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wilderness/#x7)
- The way gradually grew thicker of brushwood, as they rode along, till at last it became a trackless wilderness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wilderness/#x8)

### note

Countable (plural «wildernesses»), often «the wilderness». Pronunciation: WIL-der-ness (short «i», unlike «wild»). Related: wild.

### In the corpora

- [The Israelites wandered forty years in the wilderness before reaching the Promised Land, and they often grumbled.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/6-moses-and-the-exodus/16/)
- [and the Horites in their mount Seir, unto El-paran, which is by the wilderness.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.358/)
- [And God was with the lad, and he grew; and he dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.561/)
- [And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran; and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.562/)
- [And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.382/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wilderness» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wilderness/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.