"wastepaper basket" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: wastepaper baskets [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} wastepaper basket (plural wastepaper baskets)
  1. A small open container for discarded paper etc; a wastebasket. Categories (topical): Containers Synonyms: wagger-pagger-bagger [dated, humorous, slang], wastebasket, wastebin, wastepaper bin Translations (small open container for discarded paper): paperera [feminine] (Catalan), 廢紙簍 (Chinese Mandarin), 废纸篓 (fèizhǐlǒu) (Chinese Mandarin), 紙簍 (Chinese Mandarin), 纸篓 (zhǐlǒu) (Chinese Mandarin), affaldskurv [common-gender, especially] (Danish), roskakori (Finnish), corbeille à papiers [feminine] (French), Papierkorb [masculine] (German), eqqaavik (Greenlandic), papírkosár (Hungarian), ciseán páipéir [masculine] (Irish), cestino della carta straccia [masculine] (Italian), くずかご (kuzukago) (Japanese), 휴지통 (hyujitong) (Korean), papīrkurvis [masculine] (Latvian), ко́рпа за харти́ени отпа́доци (kórpa za hartíeni otpádoci) [feminine] (Macedonian), coș [neuter] (Romanian), coș de hârtii [neuter] (Romanian), корзи́на для бума́г (korzína dlja bumág) [feminine] (Russian), papelera [feminine] (Spanish), papperskorg [common-gender] (Swedish), rundarkiv [neuter] (Swedish), གད་སྙིགས་བླུག་ས (gad snyigs blug sa) (Tibetan), ofis tipi çöp kovası (Turkish), ofis tipi çöp kutusu (Turkish), perfore çöp kovası (Turkish), perfore çöp kutusu (Turkish), delikli çöp kovası (Turkish), delikli çöp kutusu (Turkish), fileli çöp kovası (Turkish), fileli çöp kutusu (Turkish), basged sbwriel [feminine] (Welsh)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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        "A small open container for discarded paper etc; a wastebasket."
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        },
        {
          "word": "wastebin"
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          "word": "wastepaper bin"
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          "sense": "small open container for discarded paper",
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          "word": "paperera"
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "small open container for discarded paper",
          "word": "廢紙簍"
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          "code": "cmn",
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          "roman": "fèizhǐlǒu",
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          "code": "fi",
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          "sense": "small open container for discarded paper",
          "word": "roskakori"
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          "sense": "small open container for discarded paper",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "corbeille à papiers"
        },
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "small open container for discarded paper",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Papierkorb"
        },
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          "code": "kl",
          "lang": "Greenlandic",
          "sense": "small open container for discarded paper",
          "word": "eqqaavik"
        },
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          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "small open container for discarded paper",
          "word": "papírkosár"
        },
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          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "small open container for discarded paper",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "ciseán páipéir"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
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          "sense": "small open container for discarded paper",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "cestino della carta straccia"
        },
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          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "kuzukago",
          "sense": "small open container for discarded paper",
          "word": "くずかご"
        },
        {
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "hyujitong",
          "sense": "small open container for discarded paper",
          "word": "휴지통"
        },
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          "code": "lv",
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          "sense": "small open container for discarded paper",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "papīrkurvis"
        },
        {
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "kórpa za hartíeni otpádoci",
          "sense": "small open container for discarded paper",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "ко́рпа за харти́ени отпа́доци"
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          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "small open container for discarded paper",
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          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "small open container for discarded paper",
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            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "coș de hârtii"
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          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "korzína dlja bumág",
          "sense": "small open container for discarded paper",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "корзи́на для бума́г"
        },
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "small open container for discarded paper",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "papelera"
        },
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          "code": "sv",
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          "sense": "small open container for discarded paper",
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        },
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          "code": "sv",
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          "sense": "small open container for discarded paper",
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            "neuter"
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          "word": "rundarkiv"
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          "code": "bo",
          "lang": "Tibetan",
          "roman": "gad snyigs blug sa",
          "sense": "small open container for discarded paper",
          "word": "གད་སྙིགས་བླུག་ས"
        },
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          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "small open container for discarded paper",
          "word": "ofis tipi çöp kovası"
        },
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          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "small open container for discarded paper",
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          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "small open container for discarded paper",
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          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "small open container for discarded paper",
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          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "small open container for discarded paper",
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          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "small open container for discarded paper",
          "word": "fileli çöp kovası"
        },
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          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "small open container for discarded paper",
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      "sense": "small open container for discarded paper",
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      "sense": "small open container for discarded paper",
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      "sense": "small open container for discarded paper",
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      "word": "cestino della carta straccia"
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      "sense": "small open container for discarded paper",
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      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "korzína dlja bumág",
      "sense": "small open container for discarded paper",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "корзи́на для бума́г"
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "small open container for discarded paper",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "papelera"
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "small open container for discarded paper",
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      "code": "sv",
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      "sense": "small open container for discarded paper",
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      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "roman": "gad snyigs blug sa",
      "sense": "small open container for discarded paper",
      "word": "གད་སྙིགས་བླུག་ས"
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      "sense": "small open container for discarded paper",
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      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "small open container for discarded paper",
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      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "small open container for discarded paper",
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      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "small open container for discarded paper",
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      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "small open container for discarded paper",
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      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "small open container for discarded paper",
      "word": "delikli çöp kutusu"
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      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "small open container for discarded paper",
      "word": "fileli çöp kovası"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "small open container for discarded paper",
      "word": "fileli çöp kutusu"
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    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "small open container for discarded paper",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "basged sbwriel"
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  "word": "wastepaper basket"
}

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