waste-yard

Questions about waste-yard

What does waste-yard mean?

waste-yard means "a piece of land where waste materials are dumped".

How many syllables are in waste-yard?

waste-yard has 2 syllables: wa-ste-yard. The stress falls on "wa".

What is another word for waste-yard?

Close synonyms include dump, garbage dump, trash dump, rubbish dump, wasteyard. 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 waste-yard a common word?

waste-yard 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.