1. Verb
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.
2. Verb
A disorderly or neglected place.
3. Verb
Quality or state of being wild; wildness.
4. Noun
(politics) a state of disfavor; "he led the Democratic party back from the wilderness"
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