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пу́стошь — meaning in English

pustosh

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English meaning

  • barren adj Not producing crops, plants, or life; unproductive land.
  • heath noun An open, uncultivated stretch of land, typically with sandy soil and low shrubs like heather.
  • moor noun A wide stretch of open, often hilly land covered in heather and rough grass, with poor, boggy soil.
  • waste noun Material that is no longer wanted or useful; rubbish.
  • wasteland noun An area of land that is barren, ruined, or has no useful resources.

Senses

пу́стошь is used for these senses in English:

  • barren An area of low fertility and habitation, a desolate place.
  • heath A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland.
  • 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.)
  • waste A wasteland; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
  • wasteland A place with no remaining resources; a desert.

barren — full definition

  1. adj Not producing crops, plants, or life; unproductive land.
  2. adj Lacking in interest, ideas, or results.
  3. adj (dated, of a person or animal) Unable to have children or offspring.

heath — full definition

  1. noun An open, uncultivated stretch of land, typically with sandy soil and low shrubs like heather.
  2. noun Any of several small evergreen shrubs, especially in the heather family.

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