Deadland
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Deadland is a noun meaning Wasteland; a desert or other place that does not support life.
Meaning
Wasteland; a desert or other place that does not support life.
More Meanings
- A place of death; a deadly land.
- The afterlife, especially in belief systems that do not include reward or punishment such as heaven and hell.
Example Sentences
Within that deadland lies Kurash Qwellinir, the Shattered Hills.
These must be the real deadlands. Here, there is no new growth to camouflage what the wars have done.
Nations that imprison, torture, assassinate, or drive their writers into exile fall into the deadlands of their own darkness.
He runs out of gas, and back on the ground meets up with a girl who is motoring through the deadland to meet her boss in Phoenix for some obscure technocratic purpose.
Word Forms
- deadlands
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include wasteland, desert, wasteground, waste, ghostland, deadzone.
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