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荒野 — meaning in English

kōya

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English meaning

  • desert noun A large, dry area of land with little rainfall, vegetation, or water, often sandy or rocky.
  • moor noun A wide stretch of open, often hilly land covered in heather and rough grass, with poor, boggy soil.
  • wilderness noun A wild, natural area with no human settlement or cultivation.

Senses

荒野 is used for these senses in English:

  • moor An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light (and usually acidic) soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath. (Compare bog, peatland, marsh, swamp, fen.)
  • wilderness (uncountable) Uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state inhabited by wild animals and with vegetation growing wild; (countable) a tract of such land; a waste or wild.

desert — full definition

  1. noun A large, dry area of land with little rainfall, vegetation, or water, often sandy or rocky.
  2. verb To abandon a place, person, or duty, especially when you had promised or were obligated to stay.
  3. noun What someone deserves, whether reward or punishment (usually in the phrase "just deserts").

moor — full definition

  1. noun A wide stretch of open, often hilly land covered in heather and rough grass, with poor, boggy soil.
  2. verb To tie up and fix a boat in place with ropes, chains, or an anchor.

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