wasteland
was·te·land
noun
1.
an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
- “the barrens of central Africa”
- “the trackless wastes of the desert”
Origin
Inherited from Middle English wast lond, modification of earlier weste lond, from Old English weste land (“wasteland”); equivalent to waste + land.
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