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Synonyms for ben

Most common

trash chuck junk dot

Synonyms by meaning

Noun

1. Dust bin — A container for rubbish or waste

dust bin, rubbish bin UK IE, chuck, trash can US, garbage can US CA, dump, trash, garbage US AU CA, junk, discard

3. Receptacle — A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container

receptacle, container

Other

can, dot, crib, bunker, hutch, binful rare

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.

  2. n. 2

    A container for rubbish or waste.

  3. n. 3

    The inner room of a two-room cottage (as opposed to the but); the ben room.

Related words

Phrases
brit ben
Other spellings
bin

Forms

Plural
bens → chucks, dumps, trashes, junks…

Example sentences

  • trash Yanni's house is full of trash and smells of mold.
  • chuck Chuck Norris didn't die - death has Chuck-Norrised.
  • junk There's nothing in here but a lot of useless junk.
  • dot In Lojban, the dot "." is a pause or glottal stop.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
bensteady
trashrising
chuckfalling
junkrising
dotrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
can1, dot1
4 letters
dump1, junk1, crib1
5 letters
trash1, chuck1, hutch1
6 letters
bunker2, binful
7 letters
garbage2, discard2, moringa
9 letters
container3
10 letters
receptacle4

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (bunker2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
bac
Italiano
cassa
Español
batea
Deutsch
Schale
Català
caixa