compost
English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From Old Northern French compost (“mixture of leaves, manure, etc., for fertilizing land" also "condiment”), from Latin compositus (“composed, compound”), from componere. Cognate with compote.
Noun[edit]
compost (countable and uncountable, plural composts)
- The decayed remains of organic matter that has rotted into a natural fertilizer
- Dig plenty of compost into clay or sandy soil to improve its structure.
- Shakespeare
- And do not spread the compost on the weeds / To make them ranker.
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2014 April 21, Mary Keen, “You can still teach an old gardener new tricks: Even the hardiest of us gardeners occasionally learn useful new techniques [print version: Gardening is always ready to teach even the hardiest of us a few new tricks, 19 April 2014]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening)[1], page G7:
- [T]he very wet winter will have washed much of the goodness out of the soil. Homemade compost and the load of manure we get from a friendly farmer may not be enough to compensate for what has leached from the ground.
- (obsolete) A mixture; a compound.
- Hammond
- A sad compost of more bitter than sweet.
- Hammond
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Verb[edit]
compost (third-person singular simple present composts, present participle composting, simple past and past participle composted)
- To produce compost, let organic matter decay into fertilizer
- If you compost your grass clippings, you can improve your soil.
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Adjective[edit]
compost m (feminine composta, masculine plural composts or compostos, feminine plural compostes)
- compound
- ull compost
- compound eye
- ull compost
Noun[edit]
compost m (plural composts or compostos)
Verb[edit]
compost
- past participle of compondre
Dutch[edit]
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compost m, n (uncountable)
- compost, natural fertilizer produced by decaying organic matter
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French composte (“mixture of leaves, manure, etc., for fertilizing land; condiment”), from Latin compositus (“composed, compound”), from componere. Modern French spelling influenced by English. Cognate with compote.
Noun[edit]
compost m (plural composts)
- compost, natural fertilizer produced by decaying organic matter
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External links[edit]
- “compost” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian[edit]
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From English
Noun[edit]
compost m (invariable)
Spanish[edit]
Noun[edit]
compost m (plural composts)
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