rubbish heap

Questions about rubbish heap

What does rubbish heap mean?

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

What is another word for rubbish heap?

Close synonyms include garbage heap, junk 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 rubbish heap a common word?

rubbish 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.