A desert, a wilderness. Also in figurative context.

Wasteland, desert, wilderness; an area of this.

A wild, uncultivated tract of country; a desert region, wilderness.

A desert, a wasteland; wilderness.

Uninhabited (or sparsely inhabited) and uncultivated country; a wild and desolate region, a desert, wilderness. Somewhat rhetorical.

= wilderness, n.

(without article) Wild or uncultivated land.

(with article or other defining word) A wild or uncultivated region or tract of land, uninhabited, or inhabited only by wild animals; ‘a tract of…

Some kind of waste or common lands.

A wild uncultivated waste, a wilderness.

A desert place.

An uninhabited and uncultivated tract of country; a wilderness. formerly applied more widely to any wild, uninhabited region, including forest-land…

A wilderness.

Uncultivated state (of a place or region); the character or aspect of such a place or its scenery. Also concrete a wild place, a wilderness (now rare…

plural. (Chiefly in the wilds of a specified region.)

Desolation; waste. Obsolete. rare.

Vastness.

A field overgrown with bracken or bushes; a stretch of waste land. Also: a copse. In later use sometimes in the names of such pieces of ground. Cf…

A wild or waste place; a region or tract of uncultivated and uninhabited land; a waste, a wilderness. Now mostly rhetorical or poetic.

Land in a natural or uncultivated state (also in plural in same sense). Also: a region or tract of such land.

(Recent, and probably a direct adoption of the Dutch bosch, in colonies originally Dutch.) Woodland, country more or less covered with natural wood…

Scottish. A ruined or deserted place; also, a waste piece of ground.

Country dominated by mesquite trees; a thicket of mesquite trees.

Land in its natural, uncultivated state. Also attributive.

With the. Land covered with mulga trees; remote or sparsely populated land; the outback.

bush land not brought under cultivation.

Rough country; jungle; an isolated or wild region. Usually in plural. Also attributive.

With the. The jungle; wild or rough country; (hence) a remote or unpopulated area; = boondock, n.

previously uncultivated land, spec. in Western Siberia and Kazakhstan, land made the subject of an intensive agricultural programme by the Soviet…