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Etymology

From French litière, from lit, ‘bed’, from Latin lectus; confer Greek λέκτρον. Had the sense ‘bed’ in very early English, but then came to mean ‘portable couch’, ‘bedding’, ‘strewn rushes (for animals)’, ...

Pronunciation

Noun

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Singular litter

Plural countable and uncountable; plural litters

litter (countable and uncountable; plural litters)

  1. (countable) A platform mounted on two shafts, or a more elaborate construction, designed to be carried by two (or more) people to transport one (in luxury models sometimes more) third person(s) or (occasionally in the elaborate version) a cargo, such as a religious idol.
  2. (countable) The offspring of a mammal born in one birth.
  3. (uncountable) Material used as bedding for animals.
  4. (uncountable) Collectively, items discarded on the ground.
  5. (uncountable) Absorbent material used in an animal's litter tray
  6. (uncountable) Layer of fallen leaves and similar organic matter in a forest floor.

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Verb

Infinitive to litter

Third person singular litters

Simple past littered

Past participle littered

Present participle littering

to litter (third-person singular simple present litters, present participle littering, simple past and past participle littered)

  1. (intransitive) To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).
    • By tossing the bottle out the window, he was littering.
  2. (transitive) To give birth to, used of animals.

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Translations

drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it
  • Arabic: بعثر ar(ar) (ba`thara)
  • Chinese:
    Mandarin: 亂丟垃圾 cmn(cmn), 乱丢垃圾 cmn(cmn) (luàndiū lājī, (Taiwan) luàndiū lèsè)
  • Dutch: sluikstorten nl(nl)
  • Finnish: roskata fi(fi)
  • French: jeter des ordures
  • German: ferkeln de(de), Abfall wegwerfen de(de)
  • Japanese: ごみを すてる ja(ja) (gomi-o suteru)
  • Russian: (imperfective) сорить ru(ru) (sorít'), (perfective) насорить ru(ru) (nasorít'), (imperfective) мусорить ru(ru) (músorit')
give birth

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