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ตัวอย่างประโยคจาก Tanaka JP-EN Corpus
wildernesCan you hike for days in the wilderness without seeing anyone?
wildernesCultivate the wilderness.
wildernesHunting game is forbidden in this tranquil wilderness.
wildernesThe day before yesterday he witnessed a weird incident in the wilderness.
wildernesThe garden is turning into a wilderness.
wildernesThe newcomers cultivated the immense wilderness.

WordNet (3.0)
wilderness(n) (politics) a state of disfavor, Example: he led the Democratic party back from the wilderness
wilderness(n) a wooded region in northeastern Virginia near Spotsylvania where bloody but inconclusive battles were fought in the American Civil War
wilderness(n) a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition, Syn. wild, Example: it was a wilderness preserved for the hawks and mountaineers
wilderness(n) a bewildering profusion, Example: the duties of citizenship are lost sight of in the wilderness of interests of individuals and groups; a wilderness of masts in the harbor
wilderness campaign(n) American Civil War; a series of indecisive battles in Grant's campaign (1864) against Lee in which both armies suffered terrible losses

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53
Wilderness

n. [ OE. wildernesse, wilderne, probably from AS. wildor a wild beast; cf. D. wildernis wilderness. See Wilder, v. t. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A tract of land, or a region, uncultivated and uninhabited by human beings, whether a forest or a wide, barren plain; a wild; a waste; a desert; a pathless waste of any kind. [ 1913 Webster ]

The wat'ry wilderness yields no supply. Waller. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A disorderly or neglected place. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Quality or state of being wild; wildness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

These paths and bowers doubt not but our joint hands.
Will keep from wilderness with ease. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

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