Word.ws English Dictionary

dust-bin

dust-bin is the alternative form of dustbin.

Meaning of dustbin

Noun

dustbin (plural dustbins)

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland) A bin for holding rubbish until it can be collected; a garbage can.
    • Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer...1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIX, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC

Forms of dust-bin

pluraldust-bins

Questions about dust-bin

What is dust-bin the alternative form of?
Dust-bin is the alternative form of dustbin.

Words near dust-bin in the dictionary

  1. dust storm
  2. dust storms
  3. dust trap
  4. dust traps
  5. dust up
  6. dust-bin
  7. dust-bins
  8. dust-brand
  9. dust-collector
  10. dust-collectors
  11. dust-colored

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dust-bin (page history and authors); dustbin (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “dust-bin.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/dust-bin. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.