a surrounding or nearby region; "the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville"; "it is a rugged locality"; "he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood"; "I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods"
(meteorology) rapid inward circulation of air masses about a low-pressure center; circling counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern
a bewildering profusion; "the duties of citizenship are lost sight of in the wilderness of interests of individuals and groups"; "a wilderness of masts in the harbor"
a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition; "it was a wilderness preserved for the hawks and mountaineers"
a wooded region in northeastern Virginia near Spotsylvania where inconclusive battles were fought in the American Civil War
(politics) a state of disfavor; "he led the Democratic party back from the wilderness"
a single written symbol that represents an entire word or phrase without indicating its pronunciation; "7 is a logogram that is pronounced `seven' in English and `nanatsu' in Japanese"