wild
adj. uncountableadj. a natural area where people do not live and the land is not used for farming. You usually talk about animals or plants living here in their natural home.
adj. a natural state or uncultivated region, especially one inhabited by free-roaming animals and unaffected by human settlement. Typically used with the definite article.
It is rare to see these bears in the wild.
After months of rehabilitation at the sanctuary, the eagle was finally strong enough to be released back into the wild.
Conservationists argue that preserving the wild is not merely about protecting individual species, but about maintaining the complex ecological processes that human intervention often disrupts.
From Middle English wild, wilde, from Old English wilde, from Proto-West Germanic wilþī, from Proto-Germanic wilþijaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁- (“hair, wool, grass, ear (of corn), forest”). Cognates Cognate with West Frisian wyld, Dutch wild, German wild, Danish vild, Swedish vild, Norwegian vill, Icelandic villtur.
Almost always preceded by the definite article 'the'.