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What is "soil" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does soil mean in English? Meaning of soil definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "soil" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "soil": the state of being covered with unclean things

Noun

  • Meaning: the state of being covered with unclean things
  • Synonyms: dirt filth grease grime grunge soil stain
  • Hypernyms: dirtiness uncleanness

    • Meaning of "soil": make soiled, filthy, or dirty

    Verb

  • Meaning: make soiled, filthy, or dirty
  • Example: don't soil your clothes when you play outside!
  • Synonyms: begrime bemire colly dirty grime soil
  • Hyponyms: blemish contaminate crock foul mire muck muck up mud muddy muddy up pollute slime smear splash spot
  • Hypernyms: alter change modify
  • Antonyms: clean make clean

    • Meaning of "soil": the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock

    Noun

  • Meaning: the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock
  • Synonyms: dirt soil
  • Hyponyms: alluvial soil bog soil bole boulder clay caliche clay clunch desert soil desertic soil fuller's earth gilgai soil gumbo gumbo soil hardpan humus indian red indurated clay laterite loam loess marl mold mould mud podsol podsol soil podsolic soil podzol podzol soil prairie soil regosol residual clay residual soil sand sedimentary clay silt subsoil surface soil till topsoil tundra soil undersoil wiesenboden
  • Hypernyms: earth ground

    • Meaning of "soil": material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use)

    Noun

  • Meaning: material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use)
  • Example: the land had never been plowed good agricultural soil
  • Synonyms: ground land soil
  • Hyponyms: badlands bottom bottomland coastland cultivated land farmland greensward overburden permafrost ploughland plowland polder rangeland scablands sod sward tillage tilled land tilth turf wetland
  • Hypernyms: object physical object

    • Meaning of "soil": the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state

    Noun

  • Meaning: the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state
  • Example: American troops were stationed on Japanese soil
  • Synonyms: soil territory
  • Hypernyms: geographic area geographic region geographical area geographical region

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    soil in English: soil
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