Usually means: Accumulated refuse or waste site.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. midden: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. midden: Merriam-Webster
  3. midden: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. midden: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. midden: Collins English Dictionary
  6. midden: Vocabulary.com
  7. Midden, midden: Wordnik
  8. midden: Wiktionary
  9. midden: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. midden: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. midden: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Midden, midden: Dictionary.com
  13. midden: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Midden (disambiguation), Midden: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Midden: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. midden: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. midden: Rhymezone
  18. Midden, midden (het): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. Midden: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  20. midden: FreeDictionary.org
  21. midden: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. midden: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. midden: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. midden: Medical dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Midden: LITHICS-NET's Glossary of Lithics Terminology
  3. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. midden: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. midden: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. midden: Canadian Soil Information System

(Note: See middens as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A dungheap.
noun:  A refuse heap usually near a dwelling.
noun:  (archaeology) An accumulation, deposit, or soil derived from occupation debris, rubbish, or other by-products of human activity, such as bone, shell, ash, or decayed organic materials; or a pile or mound of such materials, often prehistoric.
noun:  (zoology) A shelter made of vegetation and other materials by packrats.
noun:  (zoology) An accumulation of dried urine and fecal deposits made by hyraxes.

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