Soil

Quick meaning: Soil is a noun meaning (uncountable) A mixture of mineral particles and organic material, used to support plant growth.

Meaning

(uncountable) A mixture of mineral particles and organic material, used to support plant growth.

More Meanings

1. Country or territory.
2. That which soils or pollutes; a stain.
3. Dung; compost; manure.
4. (transitive) To make dirty.
5. (uncountable) The unconsolidated mineral or organic material on the immediate surface of the earth that serves as a natural medium for the growth of land plants.
6. A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought for by other game, as deer.
7. (uncountable) The unconsolidated mineral or organic matter on the surface of the earth that has been subjected to and shows effects of genetic and environmental factors of: climate (including water and temperature effects), and macro- and microorganisms, conditioned by relief, acting on parent material over a period of time. A product-soil differs from the material from which it is derived in many physical, chemical, biological, and morphological properties and characteristics.

Example Sentences

We bought a bag of soil for the houseplants.

As Deere being ſtrucke flie thorow many ſoiles, / Yet ſtill the ſhaft ſitcks faſt, ſo ;

Except during the season in town, she spends her year in golfing, either at St Magnus or Pau, for, like all good Americans, she has long since abjured her native soil.

And ſince not only a dead Fathers fame, / But more a Ladies honour muſt be touch’d, / Which nice as Ermines will not bear a Soil ; / Let all retire ; that you alone may hear / What ev’n in whiſpers I won’d tell your ear.

Word Forms

• soils
• soiling
• soiled

Synonyms for soil

Depending on context, synonyms include dirt, earth, besmirch, dirty, smirch, assoil.

Antonyms for soil

Common opposites include clean.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dirt, colly, land, ground, grease, bemire.

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