Bible Dictionaries
Wilderness

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(v. t.) A tract of land, or a region, uncultivated and uninhabited by human beings, whether a forest or a wide, barren plain; a wild; a waste; a desert; a pathless waste of any kind.

(2):

(v. t.) Quality or state of being wild; wildness.

(3):

(v. t.) A disorderly or neglected place.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Wilderness'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​w/wilderness.html. 1828.