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 Definitions of garbage  [ˈgɑr bɪdʒ]  

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Definition of 'garbage' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) garbage
discarded animal and vegetable matter, as from a kitchen.

2.  garbage
any matter that is no longer wanted or needed; trash.

3.  garbage
anything that is contemptibly worthless, inferior, or vile.

4.  garbage
worthless talk or data.

Etymology:  (1400–50; late ME: discarded parts of butchered fowls; cf. ME garbelage the removal of waste from spices (< OF))

Definition of 'garbage' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) garbage, refuse, food waste, scraps
food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)

2. (noun) drivel, garbage
a worthless message

3. (noun) garbage
a receptacle where waste can be discarded
"she tossed the moldy bread into the garbage"


Definition of 'garbage' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) garbage
waste, especially food waste
piles of garbage at the dump

2.  garbage
sth worthless or useless
the garbage he watches on TV


Definition of 'garbage' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) garbage
offal, as the bowels of an animal or fish; refuse animal or vegetable matter from a kitchen; hence, anything worthless, disgusting, or loathsome

2. (verb) garbage
to strip of the bowels; to clean


Definition of 'garbage' U.S. National Library of Medicine 

1.  garbage
Discarded animal and vegetable matter from a kitchen or the refuse from food preparation. (From Random House College Dictionary, 1982)


Translation of 'garbage' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: (especially American) rubbish.

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