No. 3,389 in Spanish
desierto
A barren, dry region with little to no vegetation.
In a sentence
El desierto del Sahara es uno de los más grandes del mundo.
The Sahara Desert is one of the largest in the world.
Here, 'desierto' is used as a noun to refer specifically to a type of dry, arid terrain.
El pueblo quedó desierto después de la guerra.
The town was deserted after the war.
In this example, 'desierto' is an adjective describing something uninhabited or deserted.
La investigación científica se quedó desierta por falta de fondos.
The scientific research was left abandoned due to lack of funding.
Here, 'desierta' is an adjective metaphorically implying abandonment or lack of progression.
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