wastebin

Questions about wastebin

What is another word for wastebin?

It depends which wastebin you mean. In the sense “a bin that holds rubbish until it is collected”, the synonyms are ashcan, trash can, garbage can, ash bin, ash-bin, ashbin, dustbin, trash barrel, trash bin. Across all 1 sense there are 9 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of wastebin?

WordNet records no antonym for wastebin. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for wastebin come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of wastebin

• Full entry for wastebinAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for wastebinWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.