Midden

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A dunghill or refuse heap.
  • n. Archaeology A mound or deposit containing shells, animal bones, and other refuse that indicates the site of a human settlement. Also called kitchen midden.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A dungheap.
  • n. A refuse heap usually near a dwelling.
  • n. prehistoric pile of bones and shells.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A dunghill.
  • n. An accumulation of refuse about a dwelling place; especially, an accumulation of shells or of cinders, bones, and other refuse on the supposed site of the dwelling places of prehistoric tribes, -- as on the shores of the Baltic Sea and in many other places. See Kitchen middens.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A dunghill; a muck-heap; a receptacle for kitchen refuse, ashes, etc. See midding. [Prov. Eng. and Scotch.] Specifically
  • n. A prehistoric muck-heap; a kitchenmidden.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. (archeology) a mound of domestic refuse containing shells and animal bones marking the site of a prehistoric settlement
  • n. a heap of dung or refuse
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    waste-yard    dump    trash dump    rubbish dump    wasteyard    garbage dump    dumpsite    heap    cumulus    mound   
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    dunghill   
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    truck-load    fabliaux    hatful    clearing-out    water-closet    rodlike    riddance    NFL