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| civilization |
a place offering human society and modern convenience, as opposed to the wilderness. [1/6 definitions] |
| frontier |
of, pertaining to, or typical of human settlements at the edge of the wilderness. [1/3 definitions] |
| Sukkoth |
an eight-day or nine-day Jewish festival, observed during Tishri, that commemorates the period during which the Jews wandered in the wilderness. |
| Theodore Roosevelt |
the 26th President of the United States (1901-1909), who had earlier fought in the Spanish American War in a cavalry regiment of his own formation called the Rough Riders. As president, Roosevelt worked to reform big business, show America's power to the world, create the Panama Canal, and to protect much of America's wilderness (b.1858--d.1919). |
| trailblazer |
one who marks or blazes a trail for those who will follow, as through a wilderness; pathfinder. [1/2 definitions] |
| voyageur |
a boatman or woodsman of Canadian wilderness lands. [1/2 definitions] |
| waste |
an uninhabited or uncultivated area; desert; wilderness. [1/18 definitions] |
| weald |
wooded or wild country; wilderness; forest. |
| wild |
(often pl.) an uninhabited region; wilderness. [1/15 definitions] |
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