midden — English Dictionary

Noun

1. A dung heap.

2. A refuse heap usually near a dwelling.

   Examples

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   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.

   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. 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. A shelter made of vegetation and other materials by packrats.

5. An accumulation of dried urine and fecal deposits made by hyraxes.

Noun

1. (archeology) a mound of domestic refuse containing shells and animal bones marking the site of a prehistoric settlement

   Synonyms

   eitchen middenkitchen midden

   Broader terms

   dumpgarbage dumptrash dumprubbish dumpwasteyardwaste-yarddumpsite

2. a heap of dung or refuse

   Synonyms

   dunghillmuckheapmuckhill

   Broader terms

   pileheapmoundagglomeratecumulationcumulus