HyperDic: wastebasket

English > 1 sense of the word wastebasket:
NOUNartifactwastebasket, wastepaper basket, waste-paper basket, waste basket, circular filea container with an open top
wastebasket > pronunciation
Soundswey'stbae.skaht
Rhymesabbot ... zealot / Zealot: 372 rhymes with aht...
English > wastebasket: 1 sense > noun 1, artifact
MeaningA container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish.
Synonymswastepaper basket, waste-paper basket, waste basket, circular file
BroadercontainerAny object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another)
Spanishpapelera
Catalanpaperera

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