dirtnoun [ U ]
uk/dɜːt/us/dɝːt/dirt noun [ U ] (NOT CLEAN)
B1 dust, soil, or any substance that makes a surface not clean:
His coat was covered with dirt.
mainly US soil on the ground:
I've been digging in the dirt, planting seeds.
informal solid waste:
I got some dog dirt on my shoes.
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- We were revolted by the dirt and mess in her house.
- Light-coloured carpets show the dirt.
- The folds of the curtains were blackened with dirt.
- Picture the scene - the crowds of people and animals, the noise, the dirt.
- Pimples form when pores become blocked with dirt.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Dirt & untidiness
- a dog's breakfast idiom
- bloodstain
- blot
- clutter
- contaminant
- contaminate
- defile
- filthiness
- fleck
- grime
- gunge
- gunk
- muck
- pollutant
- slob
- slovenly
- slut
- smear
- smudge
- speck
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Soil
Animal physiology: excrement & its excretion
dirt noun [ U ] (GOSSIP)
informal unpleasant or bad details about someone's private life that are repeated or published to influence people's opinion of them in a negative way:
Journalists are always digging for (= trying to discover) dirt.