DEFINITION
noun
a waterless, desolate area of land with little or no vegetation, typically one covered with sand.• a situation or place considered dull and uninteresting: a cultural desert.
adjective [ attrib. ]
like a desert: overgrazing has created desert conditions.• uninhabited and desolate: desert wastes.
ORIGIN Middle English: via Old French from late Latin desertum ‘something left waste’, neuter past participle of deserere ‘leave, forsake’.
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