BADLANDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Badlands mean? 

• BADLANDS (noun)
  The noun BADLANDS has 2 senses:

1. deeply eroded barren land

2. an eroded and barren region in southwestern South Dakota and northwestern Nebraska

  Familiarity information: BADLANDS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BADLANDS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Deeply eroded barren land

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("badlands" is a kind of...):

ground; land; soil (material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use))

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

Instance hyponyms:

Bad Lands; Badlands (an eroded and barren region in southwestern South Dakota and northwestern Nebraska)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An eroded and barren region in southwestern South Dakota and northwestern Nebraska

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Bad Lands; Badlands

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

badlands (deeply eroded barren land)

Holonyms ("Badlands" is a part of...):

Cornhusker State; NE; Neb.; Nebraska (a midwestern state on the Great Plains)

Coyote State; Mount Rushmore State; S.D.; SD; South Dakota (a state in north central United States)