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{
"term": "rubbish",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "things that you throw away because you no longer want or need them",
"labels": "(especially British English)British EnglishNorth American EnglishBritish EnglishNorth American EnglishBritish EnglishNorth American English(especially British English)(especially North American English)(North American English)",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "a **rubbish bag/bin**"
},
{
"text": "a rubbish dump/heap/tip"
},
{
"text": "The streets were littered with rubbish."
},
{
"text": "garden/household rubbish"
},
{
"text": "The rubbish is collected on Tuesdays."
},
{
"text": "Weeks have gone by without a rubbish collection, and the stench is terrible."
},
{
"text": "He is supporting a campaign to encourage people to recycle their rubbish."
},
{
"text": "He's clearing rubbish out of the attic."
},
{
"text": "I forgot to put the rubbish out last night."
},
{
"text": "Someone had dumped their rubbish by the road."
},
{
"text": "There was rubbish strewn around everywhere."
},
{
"text": "Throw the rubbish in the bin."
},
{
"text": "Over a third of British household rubbish is packaging."
},
{
"text": "About three million tonnes of rubbish will be thrown away."
}
],
"topics": ["The environment"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["domestic", "household", "garden"],
"… of rubbish": ["bag", "pile", "tons"],
"verb + rubbish": ["put out", "collect", "remove"],
"rubbish + verb": ["decay", "rot"],
"rubbish + noun": ["bag", "bin", "skip"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "something that you think is of poor quality",
"labels": "(British English, informal)",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "I thought the play was rubbish!"
},
{
"text": "The film was absolute/complete rubbish."
},
{
"text": "Do we have to listen to this rubbish music?"
},
{
"text": "They said I was a rubbish boss."
},
{
"text": "We had some rubbish teachers at school."
},
{
"text": "I was told their new album's complete rubbish."
},
{
"text": "The antique shop was just full of old rubbish."
},
{
"text": "Many critics see the paintings as worthless rubbish."
},
{
"text": "Why are you eating such rubbish?"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["absolute", "complete", "total"],
"verb + rubbish": ["talk"],
"preposition": ["rubbish about"],
"phrases": ["a load of rubbish", "what rubbish!"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "comments, ideas, etc. that you think are stupid or wrong",
"labels": "(British English, informal)",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "Rubbish! You're not fat."
},
{
"text": "You're talking a load of rubbish."
},
{
"text": "It's not rubbish—it's true!"
},
{
"text": "He described the claims as utter rubbish and nonsense."
},
{
"text": "What he said was just a load of old rubbish."
},
{
"text": "the usual rubbish about his undiscovered talents"
},
{
"text": "She's always talking rubbish."
},
{
"text": "That suggestion's absolute rubbish."
},
{
"text": "Then we were told a lot of rubbish about ‘leadership’ and ‘bonding’."
}
],
"synonyms": "nonsense",
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["absolute", "complete", "total"],
"verb + rubbish": ["talk"],
"preposition": ["rubbish about"],
"phrases": ["a load of rubbish", "what rubbish!"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈrʌbɪʃ/",
"audio": "ru/rubbish/rubbish__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈrʌbɪʃ/",
"audio": "ru/rubbish/rubbish__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French rubbous; perhaps related to Old French robe ‘spoils’; compare with rubble. The change in the ending was due to association with -ish. The verb (1950s) was originally Australian and New Zealand slang."
}