DUNGHILL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dunghill mean? 

• DUNGHILL (noun)
  The noun DUNGHILL has 2 senses:

1. a foul or degraded condition

2. a heap of dung or refuse

  Familiarity information: DUNGHILL used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DUNGHILL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A foul or degraded condition

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("dunghill" is a kind of...):

unsanitariness (a state that is not conducive to health)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A heap of dung or refuse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

dunghill; midden; muckheap; muckhill

Hypernyms ("dunghill" is a kind of...):

agglomerate; cumulation; cumulus; heap; mound; pile (a collection of objects laid on top of each other)

 Context examples 

So the cow was killed, and cut up; and the stomach, in which Tom lay, was thrown out upon a dunghill.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

My hat (which had served me for a night-cap, too) was so crushed and bent, that no old battered handleless saucepan on a dunghill need have been ashamed to vie with it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)