Nowhere
Nowhere noun - The open rural area outside of big towns and cities.
Usage example: from the looks of things, we're stranded in nowhere and most likely its proverbial middle
Wilderness and nowhere are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Wilderness" instead a noun "Nowhere".
Wilderness
Wilderness noun - A wooded region in northeastern Virginia near Spotsylvania where bloody but inconclusive battles were fought in the American Civil War.
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Synonyms for Wilderness
Nowhere and wilderness are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Nowhere" instead a noun "Wilderness".
Both words in one sentence
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In Crypt of the Sorcerer a vital clue is just chiselled onto a boulder, standing in the middle of frigging nowhere out in the wilderness.
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New Orleans was nowhere near as highly urbanized in the 1700s as it is today, so it's hardly an "error" for a person lost in the wilderness to die of dehydration.
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In the first two scenarios (the Canadian wilderness and a construction site), a bear pops out to scare/threaten the Pound Puppies, only to be scared off when Patches leaps from nowhere and barks at it.
Source: Bears Are Bad News
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