English Dictionary

rubbish

/ˈɹʌbɪʃ/

noun

(chiefly Australia, New Zealand, Britain) Refuse, waste, garbage, junk, trash. / (by extension, chiefly Australia, New Zealand, Britain) An item, or items, of low quality.

I need to take out the rubbish.

意味（1）

(chiefly Australia, New Zealand, Britain) Refuse, waste, garbage, junk, trash.

The rubbish is collected every Thursday in Gloucester, but on Wednesdays in Cheltenham.

意味（2）

(by extension, chiefly Australia, New Zealand, Britain) An item, or items, of low quality.

Much of what they sell is rubbish.

意味（3）

(by extension, chiefly Australia, New Zealand, Britain) Nonsense.

Everything the teacher said during that lesson was rubbish. How can she possibly think that a bass viol and a cello are the same thing?

意味（4）

(archaic) Debris or ruins of buildings.

That Antichriſt is a man exerciſing a kingdome, the head of the vniuerſall Apoſtaſie, … the Romane monarchie being diuided and fallen downe, out of the rubbiſhes whereof, he is by litle & litle riſen & increaſed, thorow the power and forcible working of Sathan, …