middenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈmɪdən/
• 韻: -ɪdən

名詞

midden (plural middens)

1. A dung heap.
2. A refuse heap usually near a dwelling.
   • 1952, Norman Lewis, Golden Earth:

     Untouched by the decaying middens in which they live, they emerge into the sunshine immaculate and serene. The Burmese must be the best-dressed people in the world.

   • 1979, V. S. Naipaul, A Bend in the River:

     Strange rubbish, not the tins and paper and boxes and other containers you would expect in a town, but a finer kind of waste […] that made the middens look like grey-black mounds of sifted earth.

3. (archaeology) An accumulation, deposit, or soil derived from occupation debris, rubbish, or other by-products of human activity, such as bone, shell, ash, or decayed organic materials; or a pile or mound of such materials, often prehistoric.
4. (zoology) A shelter made of vegetation and other materials by packrats.
5. (zoology) An accumulation of dried urine and fecal deposits made by hyraxes.

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