garbage
Food waste material of any kind.
Other meanings
Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.
“The garbage truck collects all residential municipal waste.”
Specifically, waste material destined not to be reclaimed through recycling, composting, etc.
“Compost goes in the brown bin and is picked up Monday, recycling goes in blue bags and is picked up Wednesday, and garbage goes in black bags and is picked up Thursday.”
Synonyms
- refuse
- food waste
A kind of
- waste
Related words
- carbage
- garbage bag
- garbage bandit
- garbage bin
- garbage can
- garbage chute
- garbage collect
- garbage collected
- garbage collection
- garbage collector
- garbage-collector
- garbage day
Example sentences
Word history
From Old French "garber" (to refine, make neat or clean).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “garbage” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.