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wasteground en · NOUN

Etymology

From waste + ground.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) A barren stretch of ground; wasteland.
    • But the wasteground was already cleared. So the workers resolved to give up a Monday to voluntary labour to scatter rubbish all over it. 1979, Aleksandr Zinoviev, The Yawning Heights:
    • The uniform was leading them across the wasteground, where one side of a great black square of tenements had been demolished. 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 18:
    • He was crawling across the wasteground on the far side of the perimeter fence. 1994, D W Hartnett, Black Milk:

Forms

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Translations (1)

sa खिल (a barren stretch of ground)