How to Spell desert
desert
desert - noun
- Arid land with usually sparse vegetation
- An area of water apparently devoid of life
- A desolate or forbidding area
- A wild uninhabited and uncultivated tract
Source: Merriam-Webster Dictionary API
"lost in a desert of doubt"
Etymology
Middle English, "barren expanse of land (either wooded or arid), wasteland," borrowed from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French, borrowed from Latin dēserta "unfrequented places, wilderness," noun derivative from neuter plural (feminine singular in Late Latin) of dēsertus "empty of people, uninhabited"
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