Meaning

Wasteland; a desert or other place that does not support life..

Definitions by Sense

1. Wasteland; a desert or other place that does not support life.
2. A place of death; a deadly land.
3. The afterlife, especially in belief systems that do not include reward or punishment such as heaven and hell.

Example Sentences

After the feverish days over deadland trails, — The repose of the gray-veiled and quiet-eyed twilight, The shimmering haze of the blue mountain valley, And the tranquil blue deep of the pool

To return to the deadland of desolation and desert, to choke in its dust, to be lashed in the face with its wind, to feel a loneliness of time and space, a loneliness of emptiness, […]

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.

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.

Does the hideous famine that gnaws the entrails with fiery fangs and burns up the wrenched and tortured tissues till the land sickens with its burden of deadland dying—does that show His pity?

A band of iron fastens around his neck, a long chain drags him to the ground, pulling him away from his people to the deadland of the south — to the land of strangers, unknown and terrifying.

Nations that imprison, torture, assassinate, or drive their writers into exile fall into the deadlands of their own darkness.

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