Definition of "deserts" []

• Plural form of desert. (noun)

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• "Steady practice will pay off by carrying you through those times when it seems like you are not making much progress at all—what we call the deserts."
• "As we challenge parishes about Connect 09, and as I listen to ministers, we see what I call deserts and lost tribes."
• "I have traversed a vast portion of the earth, and have endured all the hardships which travellers, in deserts and barbarous countries, are wont to meet."