compost pile

1. 1.

   a heap of manure and vegetation and other organic residues that are decaying to become compost

   Synonymscompost heap

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Questions about compost pile

What does compost pile mean?

compost pile means "a heap of manure and vegetation and other organic residues that are decaying to become compost".

What is another word for compost pile?

Close synonyms include compost heap. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is compost pile a common word?

compost pile is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.