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LANDFILL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A low area that has been filled in
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("landfill" is a kind of...):
lowland (low level country)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "landfill"):
sanitary landfill (a low area where waste is buried between layers of earth)