wasteground

English

Etymology

From waste +‎ ground.

Noun

wasteground (countable and uncountable, plural wastegrounds)

1. A barren stretch of ground; wasteland.
   • 1979, Aleksandr Zinoviev, The Yawning Heights:

     But the wasteground was already cleared. So the workers resolved to give up a Monday to voluntary labour to scatter rubbish all over it.

   • 1994, D W Hartnett, Black Milk:

     He was crawling across the wasteground on the far side of the perimeter fence.

   • 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 18:

     The uniform was leading them across the wasteground, where one side of a great black square of tenements had been demolished.

Translations

a barren stretch of ground

• Sanskrit: खिल (sa) n (khila)