garbage heap

Questions about garbage heap

What does garbage heap mean?

garbage heap means "an accumulation of refuse and discarded matter".

What is another word for garbage heap?

Close synonyms include junk heap, rubbish heap, scrapheap, trash heap, junk pile. 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 garbage heap a common word?

garbage heap 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.