litter
Meaning of litter
noun
- A platform mounted on two shafts, or a more elaborate construction, designed to be carried by two (or more) people to transport one (in luxury models sometimes more) third person(s) or (occasionally in the elaborate version) a cargo, such as a religious idol.
- (collective) The offspring of a mammal born in one birth.
- Material used as bedding for animals.
sleep in the litter
- Collectively, items discarded on the ground.
drop litter
- Absorbent material used in an animal's litter tray
the cat's litter
- Layer of fallen leaves and similar organic matter in a forest floor.
- A covering of straw for plants.
- To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).
By tossing the bottle out the window, he was littering.
- To scatter carelessly about.
- To strew (a place) with scattered articles.
- To give birth to, used of animals.
- To produce a litter of young.
- To supply (cattle etc.) with litter; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.
- To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.
Information about litter
- The plural form of litter is: litters.
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Hyphenation of litter
lit-ter
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- litter is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
litter synonyms
Meaning bedding material:
Meaning :
cacolet, palanquin, stretcher, garbage, junk, rubbish, trash, waste
Translation of litter
- Spanish: basura, residuo, lecho
- Portuguese: lixos
- Italian: rifiuti, immondizia, portantina
- French: litière, détritus
- German: Abfall, Sänfte
Anagrams of litter
Words that rhyme with litter
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