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Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th
desert
des·ert [desert deserts deserted deserting] noun, verb
noun BrE [ˈdezət] ; NAmE [ˈdezərt]
see also ↑deserts countable, uncountable
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.
•burning desert sands
• (figurative)a cultural desert (= a place without any culture)
Word Origin:
v. late Middle English Old French deserter late Latin desertare Latin desertus ‘left waste’ deserere ‘leave, forsake’ n. Middle English Old French late Latin desertum ‘something left waste’ deserere ‘leave, forsake’
Example Bank:
•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.
•The theatre and cinema closed and the town became a cultural desert.
•The town has become a cultural desert.
•cold nights in the desert
•green fields surrounded by arid desert
•their journey across the desert
•vast tracts of desert land
•They travelled many miles across burning desert sands.
Derived Word: ↑desertion
verb BrE [dɪˈzɜːt] ; NAmE [dɪˈzɜːrt]
1. transitive ~ sb to leave sb without help or support
Syn: ↑abandon
• She was deserted by her husband.
2. transitive, often passive ~ sth to go away from a place and leave it empty
Syn: ↑abandon
• The villages had been deserted.
• The owl seems to have deserted its nest.
3. intransitive, transitive ~ (sth) to leave the armed forces without permission
• Large numbers of soldiers deserted as defeat became inevitable.
4. transitive ~ sth (for sth) to stop using, buying or supporting sth
• Why did you desert teaching for politics?
5. transitive ~ sb if a particular quality deserts you, it is not there when you need it
•Her courage seemed to desert her for a moment.
see (like rats) deserting/leaving a sinking ship at ↑sink v.
Verb forms: 
Word Origin:
v. late Middle English Old French deserter late Latin desertare Latin desertus ‘left waste’ deserere ‘leave, forsake’ n. Middle English Old French late Latin desertum ‘something left waste’ deserere ‘leave, forsake’
Thesaurus:
desert verb
1. T
•She was deserted by her husband.
abandon • • leave • • turn your back on sb/sth • |informal dump • • walk out •
desert/abandon/leave/dump/walk out on a husband/wife
desert/abandon a child
sb's boyfriend/girlfriend deserts/dumps them
Desert or abandon? Desert is used more to talk about disloyal acts such as leaving friends without help; abandon is used more to talk about leaving people who are unable to support themselves.
2. T, often passive
•The villages had been deserted.
abandon • • evacuate • |formal vacate •
desert/abandon/evacuate/vacate a building/house/home
evacuate/vacate the office/premises
abandon/evacuate/vacate sth immediately
Example Bank:
•Don't worry— I won't desert you.
•The house/croft/encampment/village/settlement had been deserted.
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