Desert Miles Surrounded Tracts Land Noun ˈdezət ˈdezərt

• the sahara desert
• somalia is mostly desert.
• they travelled many miles across burning desert sands.
• occasionally, we passed a desert oasis surrounded by small tracts of grass and shrub.

desert

1. a large area of land that has very little water and very few plants growing on it. Many deserts are covered by sand.
• the Sahara Desert
• Somalia is mostly desert.
• They travelled many miles across burning desert sands.
• Occasionally, we passed a desert oasis surrounded by small tracts of grass and shrub.
• The town has become a cultural desert (= a place without any culture).

Extra Examples

• He drove off into the desert.
• The desert stretched for endless miles on all sides of us.
• The land loses its protective cover of vegetation and soon turns into desert.
• cold nights in the desert
• green fields surrounded by arid desert
• their journey across the desert
• vast tracts of desert land

Word Origin

• noun Middle English: via Old French from late Latin desertum ‘something left waste’, neuter past participle of deserere ‘leave, forsake’.