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Plural of wilderness

regular plural

The plural of wilderness is wildernesses.

Forms of wilderness

Singularwilderness /ˈwɪldənəs/
Pluralwildernesses
Countablecountable and uncountable

Meaning of wilderness

  1. noun 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.
  2. noun A place other than land (for example, the air or sea) that is uncared for, and therefore devoted to disorder or wildness.
  3. noun An ornamental part of a garden or park cultivated with trees and often a maze to evoke a natural wilderness.

Full definition of wilderness

Questions about the plural of wilderness

What is the plural of wilderness?
The plural of wilderness is wildernesses.
Is wilderness countable?
Wilderness is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wilderness (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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