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wildland

Syllables: wild·land

wildland noun: land that is unfit for, or has not been modified by, cultivation or other human activity; a natural area.

Noun

wildland (countable and uncountable, plural wildlands)

  1. Land that is unfit for, or has not been modified by, cultivation or other human activity; a natural area.
    • Whether it is in point of law competent for his Majesty, with the advice of and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of New Brunswick, to render the tracts of wildland in the colony which belong to his Majesty jure coronæ subject to the appropriation of the legislature of the province...1837, Lord Glenelg, question submitted to the law officers of the Crown in England, quoted in Justice Gwynne, opinion in Mercer v. Attorney General for Ontario, 1881, in Reports of the Supreme Court...
    • The traveller by the Midland Railway line to Carlisle passes through Mallerstang in the stretch of wildland traversed before reaching Kirkby Stephen, but there is no station in any portion of the valley to acquaint him with the fact.1883 September 22, Mallerstang Forest and Pendragon Castle, Westmoreland (book review), in Manchester City News, Notes and Queries section, No. 37, reprinted in J. H. Nodal (ed.), City News Notes and...

Synonyms of wildland

Forms of wildland

pluralwildlands
alternative formwild land

Origin of wildland

From wild + land.

Questions about wildland

What does wildland mean?
Wildland means land that is unfit for, or has not been modified by, cultivation or other human activity; a natural area.
What part of speech is wildland?
Wildland is a noun.
What is the plural of wildland?
The plural of wildland is wildlands.

Words near wildland in the dictionary

  1. wilding out
  2. wildings
  3. wildish
  4. wildishly
  5. wildishness
  6. wildland
  7. wildlands
  8. wildlier
  9. wildliest
  10. wildlife
  11. wildlife bridge

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