(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.
(v. t.) A disorderly or neglected place.
(v. t.) Quality or state of being wild; wildness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Wilder Penfield's development of surgical methods for treating focal cerebral seizures, beginning with his early work in Montreal in 1928, is reviewed.
(2) It’s clear which way the ultra-right community around Ukip wishes to go: their timelines are full of praise for Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders , and blazing with imagery – both real and fake – of migrant riots in France and Sweden.
(3) But Lyndon Schneiders, national campaigns director of the Wilderness Society, says the new data shows Australia is “lying to the world and lying to ourselves” about the true state of greenhouse emissions.
(4) The closest town of any size is Burns, population 2,806, where you should stock up on petrol, food and water before heading south into the wilderness on the 66-mile Steens Mountain Backcountry Byway.
(5) Wilderness areas throughout the Western hemisphere.
(6) Photograph: Martin Argles for the Guardian A journey that started five years ago with a promise to bring Labour together – to avoid the civil strife that traditionally followed election defeat – risks ending where it began: contemplating electoral wilderness.
(7) In France last year, Marine Le Pen scored 18% in the presidential election and is now powering ahead against François Hollande, while in the Netherlands Geert Wilders' Freedom party is polling at 15%.
(8) The movements that produced Brexit and Trump won about half the vote; Wilders’ is forecast to get below 20% (more from the Peilingwijzer poll aggregator here ).
(9) There is a god who protects me, and I just don’t believe Hofer will send me to a concentration camp.” Like Marine Le Pen’s Front National, the Freedom party has actively tried to distance itself from its antisemitic past since at least 2010, when it joined a cross-party alliance in the European parliament with Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom and Italy’s Northern League.
(10) At a club that has become used to selling its best players at the end of the season – more often than not to Liverpool in recent times – his arrival looks like a continuation of the smart managerial appointments that have taken Southampton from the wilderness of League One to one of the Premier League’s most consistent sides.
(11) I felt like a fugitive, a voice in the wilderness of televisual parody.
(12) Fashion moves fast, and four years is a long time in the wilderness.
(13) My regret at not eating these tasty snacks is soon allayed by Sara’s magical wilderness cooking skills: she somehow conjures up a three-course dinner from a few packets and a single burner.
(14) Peter Owen, the Wilderness Society’s South Australia director, said: “An oil spill in the Great Australian Bight from a deep-sea well blowout would be a disaster for fisheries, tourism and marine life.
(15) Off message David Davis, untamed Tory SAS man, now living rough in the political wilderness.
(16) The past year has also witnessed the rise of ultra rightwing movements such as Reclaim Australia and the Australian Liberty Alliance (ALA), the local offshoot of a party inspired by the Dutch far-right MP Geert Wilders.
(17) And, as was the case with almost every other director in Less Than Meets The Eye, Wilder did knock out a few classics; to my count, four: Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot and the just re-released The Apartment .
(18) It said the policy was rooted in a 1994 Clinton-era Border Patrol strategy called “Prevention Through Deterrence” which sealed off urban entry points and funneled people to wilderness routes risking injury, dehydration, heat stroke, exhaustion and hypothermia .
(19) Geert Wilders , the Dutch politician who faces trial for inciting racial hatred, repeated the sentiment that Europe is now “at war”.
(20) The whole listing in 2013 by [former environment minister] Tony Burke and the Greens was an ideological one aimed to destroy the forestry industry.” Colbeck said the government “will look at the decision further from here” but added “I don’t think community values would accept logging in wilderness World Heritage areas.
Wildling
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Refusing to play in the Seven Kingdoms league, the all black kit helps the team in matches against Wildling FC, who never bother to wear the same colours.
(2) Qhorin Halfhand is revered for his ability to live deep into Wildling territory for years on end.
(3) When Game of Thrones finally – finally – returns on 6 April, the most eternal of authors George RR Martin ’s conflicts will be an engine of the show’s fourth season: the battle between the men of the Night’s Watch, who guard the 700ft-high icy border of The Realm and the Wildling army that seeks to cross it.
(4) Substitute the Wildlings for the Taliban and the White Walkers for al-Qaida, and Game of Thrones has a fair amount of wisdom to impart about an actual war.
(5) The Wildling, Ygritte, born of a cold world, now simmers with love, rejection and violence.
(6) For Arya and the similarly transgressive Brienne of Tarth, though, the stifling conventions of a woman's place in the Seven Kingdoms offer none of the freedoms, military, social or sexual, enjoyed by the wildling fighter Ygritte among the tribes of the Free Folk north of the Wall.
(7) Finally, Ned Stark's bastard, Jon Snow, rejoined the Night's Watch after a jaunt with the Wildlings left him with the lesson that love hurts.
(8) The united Wildling forces are attempting a pincer assault on the Watch, slipping a small force beyond the Wall to attack the Night’s Watch stronghold while the main advance will march on the Wall directly.
(9) Wildling woman Ygritte hits at the heart of the Night’s Watch strategic blindness after her captor, Jon Snow, says that they’re both people of the North.
(10) In the north, a depleted Night's Watch seems overmatched against the inexorable Wall advances of Mance Rayder's army of wildlings, which in turn is being trailed by an even more formidable foe: the undead White Walkers.
(11) Since 2009, Sall has practised farmer-managed natural regeneration (FMNR), protecting wildlings and pruning stumps that coppice so they rapidly grow or regrow into trees.
(12) But Jon Snow betrayed Rayder's, and the Night's Watch will be ready for Jon's spurned girlfriend Ygritte and Mance's merry Wildlings.
(13) In the meantime, here's what we learnt today: Raul Meireles looks a bit like a Wildling Parking an octopus in the middle of Oxford Street is likely to get the Twitter gag merchants going The name Ting Tings will never stop being funny Good night.
(14) But instead of disbanding once the threat receded, the Watch allowed its mission to creep, embracing the folly that it protects The Realm against the odd Wildling who crosses the Wall and steals people’s stuff.
(15) The coming reckoning is the wages of the Watch attacking the Wildlings when they should have been defending them against a common enemy.
(16) One table features the King, the Don, and the Plan, none of whom would look out of place as a wildling general in Game of Thrones.
(17) The King beyond the Wall Finally, Mance Rayder, with an army of Wildlings and the name of a terrible glam rock band, is marching south on the Wall.
(18) He forms raid squads to disrupt Wildling armies by emulating flat Wilding organizational structures and light-footprint tactics.