Definition of Desert

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Desert

That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit.

A deserted or forsaken region; a barren tract incapable of supporting population, as the vast sand plains of Asia and Africa are destitute and vegetation.

A tract, which may be capable of sustaining a population, but has been left unoccupied and uncultivated; a wilderness; a solitary place.

Of or pertaining to a desert; forsaken; without life or cultivation; unproductive; waste; barren; wild; desolate; solitary; as, they landed on a desert island.

To leave (especially something which one should stay by and support); to leave in the lurch; to abandon; to forsake; -- implying blame, except sometimes when used of localities; as, to desert a friend, a principle, a cause, one's country.

To abandon (the service) without leave; to forsake in violation of duty; to abscond from; as, to desert the army; to desert one's colors.

To abandon a service without leave; to quit military service without permission, before the expiration of one's term; to abscond.

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Desert Quotations

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
Kahlil Gibran

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?
William Shakespeare

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
Milton Friedman

The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert.
Noam Chomsky

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
Albert Camus

Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.
Jim Elliot

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?
Richard P. Feynman

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
Will Durant

Desert Translations

desert in Afrikaans is verlaat
desert in Dutch is wildernis, woestenij, woestijn
desert in Finnish is autiomaa
desert in Italian is deserto
desert in Latin is inculta, derelinquo
desert in Portuguese is deserto
desert in Spanish is desierto, abandonar

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