:c : a part of a garden devoted to wild [[growth]]
:c : a part of a garden devoted to wild [[growth]]
*2 obsolete : wild or uncultivated [[state]]
*2 obsolete : wild or uncultivated [[state]]
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*3 a : a confusing multitude or mass : an indefinitely great [[number]] or [[quantity]] <I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys — Shakespeare>
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*3 a : a confusing multitude or mass : an indefinitely great [[number]] or [[quantity]] < I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys — Shakespeare>
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:b a bewildering situation <those [[moral]] wildernesses of civilized life — Norman Mailer>
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:b : a bewildering situation <those [[moral]] wildernesses of civilized life — Norman Mailer>